Android Application Security - obfuscation using ProGuard in Android Studio
There are many techniques out there for Android Application code obfuscation. Most popular and easy to be applied is using ProGuard in Android Studio. What it usually does is it will shorten your app's class name, optimize your code, remove unnecessary resources and code. The main goal of it is to make your app harder to be reverse engineered. Obfuscation in Android Application has been applied extensively by malware author to hide their malicious code and give security researcher like us a bad day. As developer, you can applied ProGuard in your Android App project by implement this additional rule in your project level build.grade(Module:app) file. buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true shrinkResources true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile ( 'proguard-android-optimize.txt' ), 'proguard-rules.pro' } debug { minifyEnabled false shrinkResources false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile ( 'proguard-and