Building libzim & libkiwix for Android with debug symbols.

.github/workflows/cd.yml

@@ -6,31 +6,31 @@
 
 jobs:
   publish:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set up JDK 17
         uses: actions/setup-java@v4
         with:
           distribution: adopt
           java-version: 17
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: bash ./install_deps.sh
 
       - name: Compile and prepare package
         run: ./gradlew buildHeaders build assemble
 
       - name: Publish to Maven Central
         run: ./gradlew publishReleasePublicationToSonatypeRepository --max-workers 1 closeAndReleaseSonatypeStagingRepository
         if: github.event_name == 'release'
         env:
           OSSRH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_USERNAME }}
           OSSRH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_PASSWORD }}
           SIGNING_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY_ID }}
           SIGNING_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_PASSWORD }}
           SIGNING_KEY: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY }}
           SONATYPE_STAGING_PROFILE_ID: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_STAGING_PROFILE_ID }}

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   Build:
     name: Build & test source code
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code

lib/build.gradle

@@ -40,16 +40,33 @@ android {
         testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         externalNativeBuild {
             cmake {
-                cppFlags ''
-                arguments "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared", "-DBUILD_DIR=${buildDir}"
+                cppFlags '-g'
+                arguments "-DANDROID_STL=c++_shared", "-DBUILD_DIR=${buildDir}", "-DANDROID_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=ON"
             }
         }
     }
 
     buildTypes {
         release {
+            jniDebuggable true
             minifyEnabled false
             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
+            packaging {
+                // Do not strip the .so files, otherwise; it will remove the debug symbol from aar file.
+                // It increases the size of the aar file since it includes the debug symbol in it.
+                jniLibs {
+                    keepDebugSymbols.add("**/*.so")
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        debug {
+            // Do not strip the .so files, otherwise; it will remove the debug symbol from aar file.
+            // It increases the size of the aar file since it includes the debug symbol in it.
+            packaging {
+                jniLibs {
+                    keepDebugSymbols.add("**/*.so")
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
     compileOptions {