How to use Java annotations to guide Android's Proguard?

Question

When using Proguard with Android, methods that are only invoked via reflection (e.g., callbacks defined in onClick XML attributes) are erroneously stripped out.

One solu

Answer 1

You can retrieve annotations.jar and annotations.pro from an official ProGuard release. You should then be able to use annotations as discussed here

All the necessary options can go in proguard.cfg.