ProGuard with James Hamilton

The Developers' Bakery · Jul 11, 2022 · 45m

If you ever shipped an Android App to production, you probably know about ProGuard, a tool to optimize, shrink and obfuscate your Java/Kotlin code.

Today we have James Hamilton on stage, to tell us about how it works internally and why you should never forget to enable it in your builds.

If you’re wondering what are the differences between ProGuard, DexGuard and R8, make sure to don’t miss this episode!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.11 Intro

00.57 Episode Start

01.31 James’s Introduction

02.52 What is ProGuard?

04.07 What is DexGuard?

05.44 Is ProGuard obfuscation secure enough?

06.58 Who…