How do I disable proguard for building my Android app?

Question

It used to be that proguard was controlled by project.properties, but that's no longer the case, and the Android documentation has not been updated. The project.properties file now clearly states that the it is generated by Android Tools and changes will be erased. I've tried commenting out the proguard.config line, but when I compile, it rewrites the project.properties, and continues to use proguard. What is the current method of disabling proguard? Thanks!

# This file is automatically generated by Android Tools.
# Do not modify this file -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE ERASED!
#
# This file must be checked in Version Control Systems.
#
# To customize properties used by the Ant build system edit
# "ant.properties", and override values to adapt the script to your
# project structure.
#
# To enable ProGuard to shrink and obfuscate your code, uncomment this (available properties: sdk.dir, user.home):
proguard.config=${sdk.dir}/tools/proguard/proguard-android.txt:proguard-project.txt:proguard-google-api-client.txt

# Project target.
target=android-17
android.library.reference.1=../../../../android-sdk-linux/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib

Did you try to delete the directory with the mappings which are created by proguard? — rekire, Feb 22 '13 at 19:05
Do you have the latest SDK? When I generate a new project and look at my `project.properties` the ProGuard line is commented out by default and the comment above it says to *un*comment it to enable ProGuard... — kabuko, Feb 22 '13 at 19:17
@rekire good call, thank you! I deleted the proguard dir under my project, and commented out the proguard.config line again and have successfully disabled proguard. Thank you! — piusvelte, Feb 22 '13 at 19:28
@kape123 I didn't see an option to accept a comment as the answer. I see that he's now added and answer, which I've accepted. Thank you! — piusvelte, Feb 22 '13 at 20:39

score 37 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '16 at 06:44

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set this

minifyEnabled false

in your app build.gradle

Like this:

 buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
        debug {
            minifyEnabled false 
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }

    }

answered Aug 20 '16 at 06:44

ahmadalibaloch

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minifyEnabled is set to false by default – Nickmccomb Oct 27 '16 at 09:43

score 28 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '17 at 09:55

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set

 useProguard false

in your app build.gradle

like

  buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        useProguard false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}

answered Dec 27 '17 at 09:55

Alex

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Best answer! Should be the definitive! – Bruno Carneiro Apr 17 '20 at 14:27
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as of 2020/06 -> The setting "useProguard" is being deprecated, and will be removed in Android Studio 3.5, see issue https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/129758703 – Sam Jun 17 '20 at 00:54

score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 20:24

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Have you tried to add the next line to your proguard configuration file (to the beginning of the file) :

-dontobfuscate

?

answered Feb 22 '13 at 20:24

android developer

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This disables obfuscation but not minification – Sam Jun 08 '19 at 04:51
@Sam I think the minification is in another flag. This answer is very old. I don't know what changed ever since.. – android developer Jun 08 '19 at 11:33

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '13 at 19:29

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Try to delete the proguard directory in your project. So proguard will forget its mapping.

answered Feb 22 '13 at 19:29

rekire

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could you please give me the steps to delete it .. i am beginner with xamarin – Mohamad Mahmoud Darwish Jan 06 '16 at 08:32
I never used xamarin, I would expect that you don't use proguard and if then not by default. – rekire Jan 06 '16 at 08:33
could you please give me the steps to delete it – Shirish Herwade Mar 03 '17 at 10:38
@ShirishHerwade I expect that you use gradle: In that case run `./gradlew clean` – rekire Mar 03 '17 at 11:52

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 23 '18 at 20:48

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According to the React-Native Docs, To disable Proguard, set def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds to false in your android/app/build.gradle:

/**
* Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
*/
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false // Instead of true

edited Jul 23 '18 at 20:48

Car4p17

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answered Dec 30 '17 at 11:33

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 17 '22 at 11:01

In my case 1 -> add this line in the android tag:

 android {
    def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false // Instead of true

2 -> then add this line

    buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        shrinkResources = false
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'

I hope it will work for you

How do I disable proguard for building my Android app?

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