Missing metadata entities could result in bugs at runtime

[jdnichollsc]

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

• Android

Please, tell us how to recreate the issue in as much detail as possible.

There could be security implications involved (mentioning names of entities that shouldn't be known in the metadata binary files for example); performance could be degraded at runtime (due to larger metabase which has to be consulted when an unknown entry is encountered or at startup); or app size could increase due to unnecessary metadata which is never used.

To give developers control over what to be included or not in the generated metadata there's support for black and whitelisting symbols by their native name. More details here