After upgrading to Gradle 5.4.1 and Android Stuidio 3.5 RC 3, crashlyticsUploadDeobsRelease task is gone

Question

Before the upgrade, calling assembleRelease would then call crashlyticsUploadDeobsRelease which would upload deobfuscation files. But now crashlyticsUploadDeobsRelease task is gone, as a result strack traces in Firebase's Crashlytics are not deobfuscated.

Anyone came across this issue?

Answer 1

I've figured it out: downgrade gradle plugin to 3.4.2

No one bothered to mention in release notes that 3.5 version comes with this surprise, but the pop-up to update gradle plugin works flawlessly.

Hope this will help others.