Mirrors lojack-connect. .NET for Android runs no DEX shrinker by default, and
even with AndroidLinkTool=r8 the ProGuard config the SDK generates hardcodes
-dontobfuscate -- a flag nothing later in the config list can undo -- so Play
Console's "DEX code optimization" report scores obfuscation at ~1%.
_AndroidObfuscateDex drops the SDK's proguard_xamarin.cfg from R8's --pg-conf
list and substitutes a copy without that line, regenerating the
-printmapping/-keepattributes tail the SDK would have appended (absolute path:
R8 resolves a relative -printmapping against the config file's own directory).
49.8% of DEX classes are now renamed.
proguard.cfg carries the keeps the generated rules miss: classes the .NET
runtime resolves by name from native code (net.dot.android.**), and public and
protected fields, which the trimmer covers for methods only. The target also
caches aapt2's keep rules outside FileWrites -- the SDK adds them to
@(ProguardConfiguration) inside _CreateBaseApkWithAapt2 and registers the file
as a FileWrite, so an incremental Release build that skips the resource link
loses them and ships an APK that dies inflating FitWindowsFrameLayout.
Verified on a Pixel 9 emulator (API 36) with the obfuscated Release APK:
launch, connection list, Add Connection form, and a Bolt connection attempt
that exercises the network/TLS stack and surfaces the driver's error dialog.
The AAB carries mapping.txt, so Play retraces Java stacks itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
