Android 13 Tiramisu Bug with Parcelable

Question

There is a bug with Android SDK 33 that crashes the app only in release build when using the new getParcelableExtra or more likely getParcelableArrayListExtra since this is where I get the issue.

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean java.lang.Class.isInterface()' on a null object reference

There seems to be a solution for Fragment but no alternative for Activity. There is also an issue tracker but was probably deleted.

Below is the code that I am using.

/**
 * Extension for getting Parcelable Intent with backward compatibility support.
 * */
inline fun <reified T : Parcelable> Activity.getParcelableIntent(key: String): T? {
    return if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU)
        intent.getParcelableExtra(key, T::class.java)
    else {
        @Suppress("DEPRECATION")
        intent.getParcelableExtra(key)
    }
}

/**
 * Extension for getting Parcelable ArrayList Intent with backward compatibility support.
 * */
inline fun <reified T : Parcelable> Activity.getParcelableArrayListIntent(key: String): java.util.ArrayList<T>? {
    return if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU)
        intent.getParcelableArrayListExtra(key, T::class.java)
    else {
        @Suppress("DEPRECATION")
        intent.getParcelableArrayListExtra(key)
    }
}

In Activity

val relatedNews = getParcelableArrayListIntent<NewsDataDomain>(INTENT_NEWS_LIST)

Despite the debug and release having both configuration on minify and shrink settings I only encounter the issue above in release build.

buildTypes {
        debug {
            debuggable true
            minifyEnabled true
            shrinkResources true
            multiDexEnabled true
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'

            firebaseCrashlytics {
                // No need during development, enabling it also prevents Gradle to work offline
                mappingFileUploadEnabled false
            }

            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        }
        release {
            debuggable false
            minifyEnabled true
            shrinkResources true
            multiDexEnabled true
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'

            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
    }

Also tried adding @Keep annotation in the domain data class but still no luck.