[Android-development] proguard

[Harri Pasanen]

It probably cannot obfuscate everything because it needs it for 
reflection to find the methods at runtime.
In particular, I would not expect anything in .so to be obfuscated.

... educated guessing from my part continues...

Harri

On 18/02/2015 06:39, maitai at virtual-winds.org wrote:
> Thanks Harri for replying
>
> I can see in the .so from the apk that all labels, class names etc are
> not obfuscated, so proguard is not called.
>
> Do you know if project.properties is generated through a template or
> something similar I could modify?
>
> Philippe.
>
> Le 17-02-2015 21:47, Harri Pasanen a écrit :
>> If you look at compile output in Qt creator, I think you'll see some
>> proguard commands go by...
>> This is from memory, so I could be wrong.
>>
>> But obviously proguard only touches the java parts.
>>
>> If you explode the generated .apk and run strings on select pieces, you
>> should see either proguard mangled strings or something familiar.
>>
>> My fast 2 cents without actually trying any of the above...
>>
>> Harri
>>
>> On 17/02/2015 19:08, maitai at virtual-winds.org wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Back on this after many hours of research... still no solution...
>>>
>>> I can see that project.properties in android build directory ask to
>>> uncomment a line to activate proguard obfuscating but since this file
>>> is
>>> regenerated at each build (by qmake as it seems?), the cbanges are
>>> lost
>>> of course.
>>>
>>> Is there a master file somewhere I am missing or an option for that?
>>>
>>> Any tip welcomed..
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>> Le 16-02-2015 16:38, maitai at virtual-winds.org a écrit :
>>>> Hello again,
>>>>
>>>> If I want to obfuscate and/or optimize apk with proguard, is it
>>>> something I can configure from qt-creator somehow? Or maybe it's done
>>>> already automatically from the SDK?
>>>>
>>>> At build time in creator I can see:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> -release-obfuscation-check:
>>>>         [echo] proguard.config is ${proguard.config}
>>>>
>>>> -pre-build:
>>>>
>>>> -check-env:
>>>>     [checkenv] Android SDK Tools Revision 24.0.2
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> But it's not clear to me if proguard is actually called or not, and
>>>> eventually how if I can change options.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Philippe Lelong
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