predictNullPointerExceptions is enabled when not optimizing aggressively about proguard HOT 2 OPEN

Thank you for reporting this.

You should be able to work around this by disabling optimization for the affected method(s), i.e.:

-keep,includecode class <affectedclass> {
    <affectedmethod>;
}

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Thank you for your answer. As we have a very large application, this happens in many hundreds of places. This workaround would require a lot of time to implement, and developers would have to think about ProGuard optimization when they write code.

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