Comment by baumschubser
Comment by baumschubser 17 hours ago
> Later on there were some incredibly good studio specific optimization tools that handled transformations automatically
Do you know of any of those tools that are available? ProGuard Obfuscator is the only tool I know of to optimize your jar.
No, they were proprietary, and their exact details remain trade secrets.
The best I knew of performed several tricks that the public research community assumes to be impossible. The big problem we had was making it totally deterministic as part of ensuring we had reproducible builds.
Of the public obfuscators in that era the most useful came from a company called dasho.