How to debug apk signed for release?

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Adil Hussain picture Adil Hussain · Jan 31, 2012 · Viewed 100.6k times · Source

I have an apk which I've signed and uploaded to Android Market, and installed on my phone. I would like to debug this release apk (by means of Eclipse) whilst it is running on my phone. I have done this before (and remember it being with one of the Android development tools; perhaps Dalvik Debug Monitor) but unfortunately cannot remember how to do it and have been unable to find any articles online. Does anyone know how this can be done?

Note: I have set android:debuggable="true" in the manifest and have enabled USB Debugging on my phone.

Answer

Manuel Lopera picture Manuel Lopera · Nov 28, 2014

I know this is old question, but future references. In Android Studio with Gradle:

buildTypes {
    release {
        debuggable true
        runProguard true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
    }
}

The line debuggable true was the trick for me.

Update:

Since gradle 1.0 it's minifyEnabled instead of runProguard. Look at here

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