Use Assets or Resources based on platform.

[yschimke]

Assets uncompressed on Android. Assuming that the AAR file will compress.

Use Resources, compressed on JVM.

Includes an Androidx Startup Initializer a ContentProvider to grab the app context.

[yschimke]

Androidx Startup approach fails with

https://github.com/square/okhttp/actions/runs/12520208963/job/34925534823?pr=8636

Execution failed for task ':okhttp:animalsnifferMain'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':okhttp:compileClasspath'.
   > Could not resolve androidx.startup:startup-runtime:1.2.0.
     Required by:
         project :okhttp
      > No matching variant of androidx.startup:startup-runtime:1.2.0 was found. The consumer was configured to find a library for use during compile-time, compatible with Java 8, preferably in the form of class files, preferably optimized for standard JVMs, and its dependencies declared externally but:

[JakeWharton]

androidx.startup is the right choice, though. The cost of each content provider is non-zero. Animal sniffer needs changed to run on the extracted jars from the aars, or just dropped from use on the Android target.

[yschimke]

@JakeWharton trying https://github.com/gmazzo/gradle-aar2jar-plugin