Comments on: How to obfuscate an Android application

By: android developer

android developer — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:08:00 +0000

from some reason, my comment had its new lines removed. sorry. hope it’s still readable.

By: android developer

android developer — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:06:00 +0000

isn’t it possible to use proguard from within eclipse without Ant?
as the manual of android says, all i need to do is just add the path to the “proguard.cfg” file into “default.properties” file :proguard.config=../proguard.cfgthis only seems to work for classes names, but not for variables names. i know it since i’ve tried using dex2jar and java decompiler , and i can see the real names of the variables.here are the reference links:http://java.decompiler.free.fr/http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/downloads/listhttp://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/proguard.html

By: Lassi Kinnunen

Lassi Kinnunen — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:57:00 +0000

you fail at understanding why to squeeze every byte out.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:59:58 +0000

I found the same problem too

By: aryan

aryan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:40:47 +0000

Can you provide some help, on build.xml?
I am getting an error on every target,
Target package-resources does not exist in this project?
what is target-resources?

By: ken

ken — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:16:45 +0000

Quick note on your build.xml…the sdk-location in the android.antlibs definition should be either sdk-folder or sdk.dir…

Thanks for writing this up…

By: Urboss

Urboss — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:57:25 +0000

Where should I find the target package-resources? It is on the dependency list of the target release-obf but missing in the file.

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:26:33 +0000

[...] the ant script way with help from the other posts. I have written a blog post on how i did it in http://just2us.com/2009/07/tutorial-obfuscate-an-android-application/ [...]

By: samwize

samwize — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:25:32 +0000

“Everybody at some point thinks they need to obfuscate their code, but in almost all cases, it’s simply not true. It won’t stop people pirating your software, it won’t actually stop people reverse-engineering your code, it’ll only make it more difficult, and, biggest of all, it won’t stop people nicking your ideas. Unless you’ve got some extremely sexy, spanking new algorithms or something, it’s not worth the bother. Even then, legal protection is more important than technically prohibiting the reverse-engineering.”

- georgemc
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5339989