How can I force Proguard to keep my .xml resource file?

Question

I am succesfully using proguard for my Android apps.

However, with one app I am having trouble.

This app uses a java library that has a .xml fi

Answer 1

You shoud add a new file keep.xml under res/raw.

In tools:keep, you list the layouts you want to keep. You can even keep specefic drawables if you use reflection in your code to get your drawable

tools:keep="@drawable/ico_android_home_infosperso"

I prefer to add tools:shrinkMode="strict" so that i make sur no resource is eliminated unless it is not used for sure. You may want to have a look at this link Shrink your code. Don't Forget to add these lines to your proguard rules:

-keepattributes InnerClasses -keep class **.R -keep class **.R$* { ; }