v2024.08.31 Release

Optimizations

This release bundles a few improved optimizations that improve code size and performance:

• Relax init optimization that inlines the constructor calls at object instantiation site. As a result, we can also remove the constructor method from the class.
• By reordering classes in InterdexPass, we made dexes more dense after Halfnosis pass and empty dexes will be left behind and can be removed by the newly introduced DexRemovalPass.

Better Engineering & Reliability Improvements

• Improved dead resource elimination, to bring parity between .apk and .aab builds for removed resources.
• Classes using the ServiceLoader Java APIs will now be kept by Redex; keep rules are no longer necessary.
• Class renaming improvements to better identify class names used by layout files and string references.
• Improved annotation handling in SingleImplPass.