Obfuscation in Android Studio

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Is there any obfuscation tool to use with Android Studio? IntelliGuard plugin is declared to be supported by the Studio, but it doesn't work actually due to missing AntSupport plugin. I wan't able to find one in the repository. Any ideas?

P.S. Android Studio build process is based on Gradle, so I wouldn't expect to see Ant support there at all. May be I'm wrong.

Answer

Led Machine picture Led Machine · May 29, 2015
  • Basic Obfuscation

To obfuscate code in Android studio just go to your build.gradle file in your Android Studio project:

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Change the minifyEnabled property from false to true

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This is a basic Obfuscation.

After generating the apk you can see the obfuscation result by decompiling the apk with any software. This page could help you:

http://www.decompileandroid.com/

In the obfuscation result you will see classes with name: a,b,c....

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And the obfuscation variables and methods will have also names like aa,c,ac...

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  • Normal obfuscation:

To obfuscate the code in a more complex form you could go to your root directory app and create a .pro file. For example in the following picture I have created the file: proguard-rules-new.pro. In the same directory you should see a file called proguard-rules.pro

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Now add the file you have created to the build.gradle file

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And edit the .pro file you have create with your own custom proguard rules

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