How ProGuard Works – Links

Thanks for watching my talk, How ProGuard Works, at Droidcon Boston or Android Summit. Here are some of the links that I mentioned in my slides, as well as links to some of my blog posts including the diagrams I used.

• ProGuard Manual
• ProGuard source code
• ProGuard v6 Release Notes (new options like -addconfigurationdebugging)
• Jake Wharton – Sinking Your Teeth into Bytecode at Droidcon UK 2017

R8:

• D8 / R8 – initial announcement
• R8 project source code
• R8 issue tracker

My posts:

• Most of the Apps on My Phone Aren’t Obfuscated
• Reading ProGuard’s Outputs
• Distinguishing Between the Different ProGuard Keep Directives
• Feeding ProGuard’s inputs: where are all of these rules coming from?
• ProGuard pro-tip: Don’t use ProGuard’s “-include” with Gradle builds
• Best Practices for Enabling ProGuard

Gradle snippet for forcing a particular version of ProGuard:

buildscript {
  ...
  configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
      force 'net.sf.proguard:proguard-base:6.0.1'
    }
  }
}