How to protect android source code

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In android How to protect android source code while uploading app in to playstore, I'm using progaurd then also we can extract code through APK Decompiler

 buildTypes {
    release {

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


    }
}

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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You can't protect your code from reverse engineering to 100%. What you can do is make it harder for a hacker to change your code though.

You can also follow some of these steps mentioned in this thread to avoid security issues.

Hope this helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Nov 29 '16 at 09:10

Raheel

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 09:02

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After doing Reverse Engineering in many application. I got the point that to secure your application use all string value, network call URLs in string.xml file. Your class files convert into java file. And resources got encrypted in other file.

You can use proguard to shrink your code and resources.

answered Nov 29 '16 at 09:02

Krunal Kapadiya

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that is good. really good. But as you have one real application in playstore. Just for one time do reverse engineering in your application. It will help you to improve your code in better way – Krunal Kapadiya Nov 29 '16 at 09:06

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Well actually we will never get 100% security on our code. But we can do some stuff to make the life of a potential malicious user a little bit more difficult:

Optimizing and obfuscating the code with ProGuard it this first step to take which works with byte code targeted at Android's Dalvik VM.

Also Proguard it's the suggested method by the official docs, and it ships along with the SDK Tools since Android 2.3

Integrated ProGuard support: ProGuard is now packaged with the SDK Tools. Developers can now obfuscate their code as an integrated part of a release build.

How to protect android source code

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