android studio 3.1 Warning: The rule `-keep public class *extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation {

Question

i recently upgraded android studio but im not able to find the source of the following issue reported in android studio 3.1:

Warning: The rule `-keep public clas         


        

Answer 1

My gradle version was the issue i upgraded to com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.2 and the error disappeared.