Have been battling with Proguard all day and have tried many examples and solutions on the official Proguard site as well as StackOverflow.
I have a large project I need to obfuscate, which has a number of referenced library projects and Jars.
I am getting 725 warnings from proguard from 2 libs, com.google.common and twitter4j.
I can happily get the project to compile if I add the following:
-dontwarn com.google.common.** -dontwarn twitter4j.** However, the app crashes instantly on open, so this seems to just be a way of hiding an issue, not fixing it.
The proguard-project.txt is in the project root and its config is in the project.properties file as below.
proguard.config=${sdk.dir}/tools/proguard/proguard-android.txt:proguard-project.txt Here is my proguard-project.txt file
-optimizationpasses 5 -dontusemixedcaseclassnames -dontskipnonpubliclibraryclasses -dontpreverify -verbose -dontshrink -optimizations !code/simplification/arithmetic,!field/*,!class/merging/* -keep public class * extends android.app.Activity -keep public class * extends android.app.Application -keep public class * extends android.app.Service -keep public class * extends android.content.BroadcastReceiver -keep public class * extends android.content.ContentProvider -keep public class * extends android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper -keep public class * extends android.preference.Preference -keep public class com.android.vending.licensing.ILicensingService -keep class javax.** { *; } -keep class org.** { *; } -keep class twitter4j.** { *; } -keep class com.google.code.** { *; } -keep class java.lang.management.** { *; } -keep class com.google.common.** { *; } -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/platforms/android-19/android.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/extras/android/support/v4/android-support-v4.jar -libraryjars C:/svn/android/MyAppLib/trunk/libs/commons-codec.jar -libraryjars C:/svn/android/MyAppLib/trunk/libs/sqlcipher.jar -libraryjars C:/svn/android/MyAppLib/trunk/libs/twitter4j-core-3.0.3.jar -libraryjars C:/svn/android/MyAppLib/trunk/libs/guava-r09.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/platforms/android-19/android.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/extras/android/support/v4/android-support-v4.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-19/libs/maps.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-19/libs/effects.jar -libraryjars C:/adt-bundle-windows/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-19/libs/usb.jar -keep public class * extends android.view.View { public <init>(android.content.Context); public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet); public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet, int); public void set*(...); } -keepclasseswithmembers class * { public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet); } -keepclasseswithmembers class * { public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet, int); } -keepclassmembers class * extends android.content.Context { public void *(android.view.View); public void *(android.view.MenuItem); } -keepclassmembers class * implements android.os.Parcelable { static ** CREATOR; } -keepclassmembers class **.R$* { public static <fields>; } -keepclassmembers class * { @android.webkit.JavascriptInterface <methods>; } -dontwarn android.support.** And Here is the truncated error log
[2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Proguard returned with error code 1. See console [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Note: there were 9032 duplicate class definitions. [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.management.APIStatisticsOpenMBean: can't find superclass or interface javax.management.DynamicMBean [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalence: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalence: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalence: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$1: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$1: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$1: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$2: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$2: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Equivalences$Impl$2: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Function: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Function: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Functions: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Functions: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: com.google.common.base.Functions$ConstantFunction: can't find referenced class javax.annotation.Nullable *********************************** ANOTHER 500 LINES OF com.google.common ERRORS ****************************************** [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class java.lang.management.ManagementFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.ObjectName [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.ObjectName [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanServer [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanRegistrationException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanRegistrationException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanRegistrationException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.NotCompliantMBeanException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.NotCompliantMBeanException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.NotCompliantMBeanException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class java.lang.management.ManagementFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanServer [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.ObjectName [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.ObjectName [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanServer [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MBeanRegistrationException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.NotCompliantMBeanException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.TwitterAPIMonitor: can't find referenced class javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.CommonsLoggingLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.CommonsLoggingLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Level [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Level [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.Log4JLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.apache.log4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLogger: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.Logger [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.internal.logging.SLF4JLoggerFactory: can't find referenced class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.management.APIStatisticsOpenMBean: can't find referenced class javax.management.openmbean.CompositeType [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: twitter4j.management.APIStatisticsOpenMBean: can't find referenced class javax.management.openmbean.CompositeType *********************************** ANOTHER 500 LINES OF twitter4j ERRORS ****************************************** [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] You should check if you need to specify additional program jars. [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] Warning: there were 725 unresolved references to classes or interfaces. [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] You may need to specify additional library jars (using '-libraryjars'). [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] java.io.IOException: Please correct the above warnings first. [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] at proguard.Initializer.execute(Initializer.java:321) [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] at proguard.ProGuard.initialize(ProGuard.java:211) [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] at proguard.ProGuard.execute(ProGuard.java:86) [2014-01-13 14:00:07 - MyApp] at proguard.ProGuard.main(ProGuard.java:492) EDIT** Stack trace from crash, clearer now that it is linked to sqlcipher
E/Database(18203): Can't find SQLiteDatabase.mNativeHandle E/Cursor(18203): Can't find net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteCompiledSql E/Cursor(18203): Can't find net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteQuery E/Cursor(18203): Can't find net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteProgram E/Cursor(18203): Can't find net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteStatement E/CursorWindow(18203): Can't find net/sqlcipher/CursorWindow D/AndroidRuntime(18203): Shutting down VM W/dalvikvm(18203): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x415e9ba8) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Process: com.mycompany.android.myapp, PID: 18203 E/AndroidRuntime(18203): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sqlcipher/CursorWindow E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.Runtime.nativeLoad(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.Runtime.doLoad(Runtime.java:421) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:362) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:526) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at net.sqlcipher.database.SQLiteDatabase.a(Unknown Source) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at net.sqlcipher.database.SQLiteDatabase.a(Unknown Source) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at com.mycompany.android.myapplib.sqlite.MyProvider.onCreate(Unknown Source) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1591) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1562) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:4790) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4385) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4325) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:135) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1256) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteStatement E/AndroidRuntime(18203): ... 22 more E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteProgram E/AndroidRuntime(18203): ... 22 more E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteQuery E/AndroidRuntime(18203): ... 22 more E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteCompiledSql E/AndroidRuntime(18203): ... 22 more E/AndroidRuntime(18203): Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: no field with name='mNativeHandle' signature='I' in class Lnet/sqlcipher/database/SQLiteDatabase; E/AndroidRuntime(18203): ... 22 more