Is there anyone here who have real-world experience on this topic and is willing to share his experiences on subject? Links to guides/code/step-by-step instructions are highly appreciated.
Thanks!
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A:
There is a SourceForge product called "ProGuard", and it works for the Android platform (see http://proguard.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#android).
Yes. Google's dx compiler converts ordinary jar files into files that run on Android devices. By preprocessing the original jar files, ProGuard can significantly reduce the file sizes and boost the run-time performance of the code.
It optimizes, shrinks and obfuscates your application.
You can find more information about ProGuard here: http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
(It even can reduce the total library of Java Standard edition in 16 minutes: 66% less size, faster performance ánd obfuscation!)
(No experience on ProGuard for the Android, but used it many times for Java Standard Edition.)
Pindatjuh
2010-03-27 23:20:18
It works with Android, though depending on which version of Android you may have to make some adjustments or the bytecode verifier will get cranky. -allowaccessmodification may be needed, -mergeinterfacesaggressively should not be used, and older versions may need -optimizations !code/simplification/cast.
fadden
2010-03-29 19:59:00
any tutorial on how to use proguard?
aryaxt
2010-07-05 18:12:36