What is ProGuard?
It makes your Java and Android applications up to 90% smaller and up to 20% faster. It also provides minimal protection against reverse engineering by obfuscating the names of classes, fields and methods.
ProGuard is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Obfuscates Java applications and pre-verifies the processed code for Java Micro Edition and for Java 6 and higherOptimizes and obfuscates Java applications for cell phones, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and other constrained devicesReduces the download and startup time of Android applications and improves their performance on mobile devices
ProGuard Pros & Cons
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ProGuard Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to ProGuard?
guava
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
Java 8
It is a revolutionary release of the world’s no 1 development platform. It includes a huge upgrade to the Java programming model and a coordinated evolution of the JVM, Java language, and libraries. Java 8 includes features for productivity, ease of use, improved polyglot programming, security and improved performance.
Apache FreeMarker
It is a "template engine"; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to auto generated source code) based on templates. It's a Java package, a class library for Java programmers.
