APK security

[Daniele Comi]

Is proguard the best tool to obfuscate apk source codes?

 

[srkmagnus]

Is proguard the best tool to obfuscate apk source codes?

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Let us know and we'll do our best to assist with the best ways to accomplish that goal.

 

[mrYoussef135]

The sad truth is , if you can obfuscate it, you can deobfuscate it.

 

[riksweeney]

Well, sort of. What proguard does is takes code such as

package com.mygamecompany.mygame.enemy;

class Enemy {
private int health;
private float x;
private float y;

public void fireAtPlayer()...
}

and turns it into something like

package a.b.c.d;

class A {
private int a;
private float b;
private float c;

public void d()...
}

The code will still run, but deciphering what most of it means will take while, particularly if the code is badly written to begin with.

Proguard also won't obfuscate any strings in the code, you can get commercial obfuscators which will do this though.

 

[Daniele Comi]

It's just curiosity, I wanted to know if I could not allow anyone to see my app code clear.

 

[Daniele Comi]

Proguard also won't obfuscate any strings in the code, you can get commercial obfuscators which will do this though.

Oh ok it just make more difficult reading the code