EventBus vs ProGuard

EventBus vs ProGuard: What are the differences?

Developers describe EventBus as "An open-source library for Android and Java". It enables central communication to decoupled classes with just a few lines of code – simplifying the code, removing dependencies, and speeding up app development. On the other hand, ProGuard is detailed as "Open source optimizer for Java bytecode". 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.

EventBus belongs to "Java Build Tools" category of the tech stack, while ProGuard can be primarily classified under "Java Tools".

Some of the features offered by EventBus are:

• Simple yet powerful
• Battle tested
• High Performance

On the other hand, ProGuard provides the following key features:

• Obfuscates Java applications and pre-verifies the processed code for Java Micro Edition and for Java 6 and higher
• Optimizes and obfuscates Java applications for cell phones, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and other constrained devices
• Reduces the download and startup time of Android applications and improves their performance on mobile devices

EventBus is an open source tool with 21.9K GitHub stars and 4.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to EventBus's open source repository on GitHub.