Sorry second post wasn't worded properly. Yes, I was asking obfuscating one jar, rather than the entire application. If that's a good approach and if that's safe to do. That's why the second post, if using a jar on an application if it could be easily extracted. Cause if you could there is no point in obfuscating the jar, since it could be extracted and reused by some other app.
-Moto On Oct 5, 8:25 pm, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > Though I'll admit that his second post makes no sense in that context. > > On Oct 5, 7:20 pm, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why would you think a JAR provides any obfuscation at all? I open them > > as ZIP files all the time. Not to mention that Android doesn't even > > run Java bytecode. Any JAR you put in your project's classpath is just > > a source for Java bytecode that gets converted to Dalvik bytecode and > > put into a file in the APK when you build your project. > > > On Oct 5, 11:26 am, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm a bit scared about obfuscating my application completely. I'm > > > afraid to run into issues where I can't figure out a bug because lines > > > and function names wont match. Please correct me if I'm wrong... > > > > I thought maybe the simplest way to protect important parts of my code > > > is to create a jar of the important files. I know and understand that > > > jars are good only for classes and no xmls or other Android dependent > > > parts. I believe it would be simple this way since I would not have to > > > worry about obfuscating too much and breaking my project. Also, could > > > be helpful for distributing to clients a library which they can't > > > decompile. > > > > In terms of obfuscating jars maybe I could do the same to the Market > > > Licensing code to protect my paid application from pirating? > > > > What are your thoughts on my approach? Maybe bad idea? What > > > experiences have you had with obfuscating your application? Is it not > > > as bad as I think? > > > > Thanks, > > > -Moto > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
