Also under Microsoft Windows take care to apply -
dontusemixedcaseclassnames with Proguard, or else you will run into
trouble with dex once getting beyond 26 classes a-z.
For me -optimizationpasses 1 was maximum, or else the Android emulator
would fail (in 0.9 beta, didn't bother to retry for 1.0 r1).
On Sep 25, 11:14 am, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manual obfuscation works fine, using an Ant script and ProGuard. It is
> not that difficult to set up.
>
> Few things to consider:
> * There were some problems with optimized code: Sometimes optimized
> code throws errors when converting to dex code.
> * All class names that are defined in the Manifest or used as custom
> widgets in layout files should of course be excluded from obfuscation.
> In our application this is quite a lot (activities, content providers,
> widgets), so this somehow prevents complete obfuscation, and it is
> easier to guess from the decompiled class names what they are good
> for.
>
> Other than that, I don't think there is anything wrong with
> obfuscation. It also decreases the apk size slightly, by using shorter
> strings for class and method names ("a", "b", "c", ..). Smaller file
> size is always good on mobiles :-)
>
> Let me know if you need help in setting up the ant script.
>
> Peliwww.openintents.org
>
> On Sep 24, 10:49 pm, UBZack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if there are plans to include an option to obfuscate,
> > or encrypt class files (before they are then converted to .dex files)
> > within the ADT plugin for eclipse? I've been searching the Android
> > group for a while now, it seems that people are manually obfuscating
> > their class files, then manually converting them to dex files, which
> > is fine if you're building using ant, but it would be really great to
> > be able to have the eclipse ADT automatically do this process.
>
> > Additionally, does anyone have some idea what exactly is Google's
> > philosophy towards obfuscation/class-encryption in Android?
>
>
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