Proguard make it a bit harder to RE, but it'll still possible (and the APKtool gives you possibility to debug which is a really powerful RE tool), moreover you cannot use all of proguard optimization because you will not be able to convert classes to dex, in fact you can only use shrink and agressive overloading. Bottom line is: proguard lets you shrink you code about 30% but it'll not make your application hack / RE proof.
-- Bart Janusz (Beepstreet) On May 11, 6:09 pm, pacoder <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone tried using an obfuscator on their app before apk'ing it? > Something likehttp://proguard.sourceforge.net/ > > I'm going to give it a try and then try to reverse engineer it to see > if it helps. > > Don't like the idea of people reverse engineering our code either... > > On May 11, 12:00 pm, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know, but I find the summary of it interesting. . > > > "It is a tool for reengineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android > > apps." > > > "It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be > > used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom > > platforms and other GOOD purposes." > > > Baloney. Reengineering itself is an illegal use. There is no GOOD > > purpose it should be used for. It is a piracy tool pure and simple. > > > Nathan > > > On May 11, 8:28 am, André <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > I stumbled across this program on the web: > > > >http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/ > > > > And realized that it works pretty well. I can decode the programs I've > > > made from the apk files. > > > I can't really say I like that. > > > > Does anyone know of a way create the apk file without having programs > > > like this being able to decode and open them? > > > > -André > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
