Proguard and reflection in Android

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For others that are having this problem you need to add the following to proguard.cnf

-keep public class * extends com.yoursite.android.yourappname.YourClassName

-keepclassmembers class * extends com.yoursite.android.yourappname.YourClassName{
 public <init>(android.content.Context);
}

The first keep tells proguard to not obfuscate class names that extend YourClassName

The second one says to keep the constructor name (<init> means constructor) un-obfuscated that has a single argument of Context and extends YourClassName

In addition, for android developers that are using the onClick attribute in you XML layouts file you will also need to add the name of the function in your proguard.cnf file.

-keepclassmembers class * {
 public void myClickHandler(android.view.View);
}

This says keep all methods named myClickHandler with a single argument View in all classes. You could further constrain this by using the extends keyword like above.

hope this helps.

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