Android assets are not accounted for

[ZacSweers]

Build scan link

Plugin version

1.1.0

Gradle version

7.4.2

(Optional) Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) version

7.1.3

Describe the bug

Android assets are not currently accounted for, so a project that contains assets only is determined to be compileOnly-safe to depend on.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have an assets-only project with one kotlin file for compilation marker reasons (so IC data is generated)
2. Depend on it in your top-level app project
3. Run analysis in the app project and observe it suggests making it compile-only (interestingly not a removable dependency though?)


Expected behavior

It should ideally detect usage or at least maybe not touch projects with assets since they're un-trackable

Additional context

[autonomousapps]

It's been a while, so I have to ask: how do you use an asset from another module? What does the code look like? This gets at the question: how would I track that an asset is used? From a packaging perspective, are all assets from all android libraries bundled into the final apk or aar?

[ZacSweers]

Here's an example snippet:

context.getAssets().open("some_icon.png")

Where getAssets() returns AssetManager: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/AssetManager

[autonomousapps]

Do you know any examples of published libraries that contain assets? Or is this only relevant for projects in a multi-project situation?