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dragonfly
dragonfly

Reputation: 1211

why we should use key word "-keep" in proguard.cfg

I don't understand that why we need to use the key word "-keep" in proguard.cfg. The purpose of proguard is to confuse people who try to read the source code. In my opinion, we should try to make all codes confused, but why we use "-keep" to keep some source code unchanged.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 187

Answers (1)

Eric Lafortune
Eric Lafortune

Reputation: 45686

You're right, for best optimization and obfuscation results, you should use -keep as sparingly as possible. However, if the code is performing reflection, the options may be necessary to preserve specific classes, fields, and methods with their original names. For instance, an external configuration file may contain class names, which can only work if the classes are still present.

Upvotes: 1

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