ProGuard FAQ

Does ProGuard work with Java 2, 5, ..., 8?

Yes

Does ProGuard work with Java Micro Edition?

Yes

Does ProGuard work for Android apps?

Yes

​​​​​​​Does ProGuard work for Blackberry code?

It should. It sometimes fails on obfuscated code that is valid and accepted by other JME tools and VMs.

Does ProGuard have support for Ant?

Yes

Does ProGuard have support for Gradle?

Yes

​​​​​​​Does ProGuard come with a GUI?

Yes

Does ProGuard handle Class.forName calls?

Yes

Does ProGuard handle resource files?

Yes

​​​​​​​Does ProGuard encrypt string constants?

No

Does ProGuard perform control flow obfuscation?

Not explicitly. ProGuard does not do this, except to some extent in its optimization techniques.

Does ProGuard support incremental obfuscation?

Yes

Can ProGuard obfuscate using reserved keywords?

Yes

Can ProGuard reconstruct obfuscated stack traces?

Yes