Does proguard work to obfuscate static string constants?

Question

Will proguard work to obfuscate static string constants?

Answer 1

What ProGuard does (if configured correctly to do so) is in-line string constants. It wouldn't make much sense to obfuscate them, think of it, a string constant could be used for representing a message to the user, and what good would it do if it were obfuscated?