Updating from android-database-sqlcipher to sqlcipher-android

SQLCipher
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Hi, my application has been using android-database-sqlcipher for quite some years now. Today I got the following message from playstore

net.zetetic:android-database-sqlcipher has reported android-database-sqlcipher:3.5.9 as outdated. You may not be able to release future versions of your app with this SDK version to production or open testing.

so I replaced implementation ‘net.zetetic:android-database-sqlcipher:3.5.9@aar’ with implementation ‘net.zetetic:sqlcipher-android:4.5.5@aar’

But on doing that I am getting this issue

Task :maxRVU:mergeMaxrvuDebugNativeLibs FAILED
Execution failed for task ‘:maxRVU:mergeMaxrvuDebugNativeLibs’.
A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.MergeNativeLibsTask$MergeNativeLibsTaskWorkAction
2 files found with path ‘lib/arm64-v8a/libsqlcipher.so’ from inputs:
- /Users/ashish/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/47cad2ebd25762db6d4f72d65143456b/transformed/jetified-sqlcipher-android-4.5.5/jni/arm64-v8a/libsqlcipher.so
- /Users/ashish/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/ff8ddd5b58a3b5727c6ff94414d581dd/transformed/jetified-android-database-sqlcipher-3.5.9/jni/arm64-v8a/libsqlcipher.so

Can you help me with what I can do to fix this issues?

Thank you.

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Hi @Ashish_Nair,

This post appears to have been cross posted to GitHub here. If that is not the case, please let us know.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. Although it’s the same issue that I posted on github but I still haven’t got the solution to my issue. Can you please help me with that?

Thanks in advance.

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Hello @Ashish_Nair,

It would be best to keep all communication in a single location. At this point, would you please reply to the ongoing thread on GitHub? Thanks!

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Hi @developernotes , so when I upgraded to “net.zetetic:android-database-sqlcipher:4.2.0@aar” & “com.commonsware.cwac:saferoom.x:1.0.0” & ran the application I got this error “Caused by: net.sqlcipher.database.SQLiteException: file is not a database: , while compiling: select count(*) from sqlite_master;”. But when I uninstall the application & re-run it again then it works. This is my code.

mInstance = Room.databaseBuilder(context,
MaxRVURewampDatabase.class, “MaxRVU-db.sql”)
.openHelperFactory(factory)
.allowMainThreadQueries()
.addMigrations(MIGRATION_1_2)
.build();

Can you help me in identifying what could be the issue here? Thanks in advance.

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Hi @Ashish_Nair,

It sounds like you are upgrading from SQLCipher 3.x to 4.x. Due to the introduction of new default algorithms, increased KDF iterations and a larger page size SQLCipher 4 will not open older databases by default. We have posted recommended approached to addressing this here: