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norbDEV
norbDEV

Reputation: 5325

How to turn off only the obfuscation in Android R8?

I use Android Studio 3.3 Canary 5, Gradle 4.9, gradle plugin 3.3.0-alpha05

minifyEnabled true
useProguard false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'

Does't work.

Edit:

@JakeWharton: "You use ProGuard configurations for this, not a Gradle DSL. Disable shrinking with -dontshrink, disable obfuscation with -dontobfuscate, and disable optimization with -dontoptimize."

TLDL

proguard-rules.pro

-dontshrink
-dontobfuscate
-dontoptimize

Upvotes: 30

Views: 26748

Answers (3)

tyirvine
tyirvine

Reputation: 2341

build.gradle

buildTypes {
    release {
        shrinkResources false
        minifyEnabled true // R8 or ProGuard will be enabled.
        proguardFiles 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
    debug {
        shrinkResources false
        minifyEnabled false // R8 or ProGuard will be disabled.
    }
}

This answer does not demonstrate how to disable obfuscation within R8. It instead shows how to disable obfuscation at the build level.

I found setting minifyEnabled to false in build.gradle disables R8 and thus removes obfuscation. Obligatory reminder: Be cautious disabling obfuscation as it will mean the source will not be cloaked whatsoever.

Upvotes: 0

Bharath
Bharath

Reputation: 401

In your gradle.properties file, add this line

 android.enableR8=false

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 18

eli
eli

Reputation: 685

Following this answer, I was able to solve this issue. Instead of editing the build.gradle file, I added -dontobfuscate to the proguard-rules.pro file. (You can configure a different proguard rules file for debug and release builds.) This skipped the obfuscation step and allowed me to make shrink'd debug builds with R8.

Upvotes: 25

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