Improve startup process & notifying users of nonfatal component errors

[david-allison]

Opening for discussion

• See 2.24.0alpha3 is broken: Field 'onlyNotifyIfNoReviews' is required for type with serial name 'com.ichi2.anki.reviewreminders.ReviewReminder', but it was missing #20163
• Subset of Consolidate validation of app entry points #19552

[david-allison]

Initially: investigate https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/startup

[rudrat0319]

@david-allison I can take on this issue. Can u assign it to me?

[vibhor-kulshrestha]

@david-allison I’m currently working on this. Apart from integrating AndroidX Startup, is there anything else you’d recommend addressing as part of this improvement?

So far, I’ve identified a few candidates for optimisation, including lazily initialising some providers. Additionally, would you like me to add a Baseline Profile as part of this change?

[david-allison]

No specific guidance here. Ideally find a framework and start with a small spike to improve a single aspect of the startup process

[david-allison]

@rudrat0319 @vibhor-kulshrestha ideally only one of you should work on this, unless you can divide the work

@rudrat0319 you asked first. Do you think it's feasible to split the work so two people can contribute without conflicts?

[vibhor-kulshrestha]

@rudrat0319 Yesterday, I successfully set up a few initialisers using AndroidX Startup and was able to build the project without issues. I’m now considering moving some components to lazy initialization since they aren’t required during app startup. If you have already identified and implemented lazy initialization for these, please let me know and I won’t proceed further with this part. In that case, I can move on to working on baseline profiling instead.

[rudrat0319]

@vibhor-kulshrestha I think it's doable, but given how intertwined the startup and initialization changes are, I'd prefer to work on this end to end to avoid conflicts. I'll keep the issue updated, and if I run into any blockers i'll reach out so we can coordinate or split things up.

[Giyutomioka-SS]

Hi @rudrat0319, are you still working on this?

There hasn’t been any update for a while. If not, could I take over from here?

[rudrat0319]

Hi @Giyutomioka-SS , yes I'm working on it. I was but caught up with other stuff which is why I couldn't update. I'm submitting the PR in a few days

[david-allison]

hi @rudrat0319, what's the status on this?

[Alok-Silswal]

@rudrat0319 Still working on it? Else I can look into it.