Android ProGuard

Strongly consider utilizing obfuscation and runtime app self-protection if you release software that runs in an untrusted environment and has intellectual property, provides access to sensitive information, or has gated functionality .

Strongly consider utilizing obfuscation and runtime app self-protection if you release software that runs in an untrusted environment and has intellectual property, provides access to sensitive information, or has gated functionality .

Specifically, there are several common obfuscation techniques used by Android apps, including identifier renaming, string encryption, excessive overloading, reflection , and so forth.

Specifically, there are several common obfuscation techniques used by Android apps, including identifier renaming, string encryption, excessive overloading, reflection , and so forth.

Following are the main steps.

Following are the main steps.

Obfuscapk is an open-source automatic obfuscation tool for Android apps that works in a black-box fashion (i.e., it does not need the app source code). Obfuscapk supports advanced obfuscation features and has a modular architecture that could be straightforwardly extended to support new obfuscation techniques.