diff --git a/packages/SystemUI/Android.bp b/packages/SystemUI/Android.bp
index 77925d6..6080101 100644
--- a/packages/SystemUI/Android.bp
+++ b/packages/SystemUI/Android.bp
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
         "LowLightDreamLib",
         "motion_tool_lib",
     ],
+    libs: [
+        "keepanno-annotations",
+    ],
     manifest: "AndroidManifest.xml",
 
     javacflags: ["-Adagger.fastInit=enabled"],
@@ -466,6 +469,7 @@
         "android.test.runner",
         "android.test.base",
         "android.test.mock",
+        "keepanno-annotations",
     ],
     kotlincflags: ["-Xjvm-default=all"],
     aaptflags: [
@@ -497,6 +501,9 @@
     static_libs: [
         "SystemUI-tests-base",
     ],
+    libs: [
+        "keepanno-annotations",
+    ],
     aaptflags: [
         "--extra-packages",
         "com.android.systemui",
diff --git a/packages/SystemUI/proguard_common.flags b/packages/SystemUI/proguard_common.flags
index e2d8891..be1e655 100644
--- a/packages/SystemUI/proguard_common.flags
+++ b/packages/SystemUI/proguard_common.flags
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 -keep class com.android.systemui.VendorServices
 
-# the `#inject` methods are accessed via reflection to work on ContentProviders
--keepclassmembers class * extends com.android.systemui.dagger.SysUIComponent { void inject(***); }
-
 # Needed to ensure callback field references are kept in their respective
 # owning classes when the downstream callback registrars only store weak refs.
 # TODO(b/264686688): Handle these cases with more targeted annotations.
diff --git a/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/SystemUIAppComponentFactoryBase.kt b/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/SystemUIAppComponentFactoryBase.kt
index 12108b0..b15aaaf 100644
--- a/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/SystemUIAppComponentFactoryBase.kt
+++ b/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/SystemUIAppComponentFactoryBase.kt
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 import android.util.Log
 import androidx.core.app.AppComponentFactory
 import com.android.systemui.dagger.ContextComponentHelper
+import com.android.systemui.dagger.SysUIComponent
+import com.android.tools.r8.keepanno.annotations.KeepTarget
+import com.android.tools.r8.keepanno.annotations.UsesReflection
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException
 import javax.inject.Inject
@@ -88,6 +91,7 @@
         return app
     }
 
+    @UsesReflection(KeepTarget(extendsClassConstant = SysUIComponent::class, methodName = "inject"))
     override fun instantiateProviderCompat(cl: ClassLoader, className: String): ContentProvider {
         val contentProvider = super.instantiateProviderCompat(cl, className)
         if (contentProvider is ContextInitializer) {