So last time I explained how to set up Proguard in your Maven build for your Android application without getting yourself into trouble with regards to different operating systems or with automatically saving your mapping file in case you use obfuscation and want to be able to make sense of the stack traces in the Android market backend. I however mostly left out any tips on configuring proguard itself, since this is a whole other chapter. And thats what I am going to explain a bit more in detail today..
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Tag: Proguard
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Hints for using Proguard on your Android app
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Proguard for Android with Maven without shooting yourself in the foot
So with the introduction with the Android License Validation Library and now with the SDK tools revision 8 and the integrated options, Proguard has gained more and more interest in the Android developer community and users of the Android Maven Plugin are certainly not left behind. Of course Proguard is a fairly powerful tool that overs plenty of opportunity to get yourself into trouble or long debugging sessions. With this post I am going to show you how to best set up proguard usage in your Maven based Android application build. So lets get started.
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