My Android app project requires doNotStrip when packaging, but my project configure file is new build configuration file build.gradle.kts instead of build.gradle. Most of the tutorials are for build.gradle.

After I googled and ChatGPT’ed, google gives me the following answer

android {
    packagingOptions {
        doNotStrip("**/*.so") // Do not strip all *.so files
    }
}

and then I rebuild my project there are still ./app/build/intermediates/stripped_native_libs/debug/ directory in my project directory. (I have rm this dir so I’m sure this dir is newly created, so that’s not working, (still stripped)). As following

/path/to/android/project_dir $ find . -name "*.so"
./app/build/intermediates/merged_native_libs/debug/out/lib/arm64-v8a/lib***.so
./app/build/intermediates/merged_jni_libs/debug/out/arm64-v8a/lib***.so
./app/build/intermediates/stripped_native_libs/debug/out/lib/lib***.so

Then the Android Studio give me suggestions to change packagingOptions to packaging as below

    packaging {
        resources {
            excludes += "/META-INF/{AL2.0,LGPL2.1}"
        }
        jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols += "*/*/libSenseChatLite_shared.so";
        jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols += "*/*/libsensitive.so";
        jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols += "*/*/libnpjg_a64.so";
    }

This still doesn’t work (created an ./app/build/intermediates/stripped_native_libs/debug/ directory)

How can I doNotStrip these dylibs in this brand new build system?