Androidx Build Fails In Release Mode Regarding Appcomponentfactory

I'm using Android P and compiling against AndroidX. Works great in debug/beta, but when I make a release I get a cryptic crash during runtime: 2018-06-24 00:21:26.080 11971-11971/

Solution 1:

Add -keep class androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory { *; } to your proguard config so that this class won't be proguarded out