Java obfuscation - ProGuard/yGuard/other? [closed]

Answer 1

My opinion is - ProGuard is better. Output is smaller a bit. Optimizing is better and much faster.

Decompiling is simple in both cases. Well, i mean, if u know Java well and really know business-logic of what you're decompiling, there is no problem to get it back to sources from obfuscated classes.

So, my opinion is ProGuard is better.

Answer 2

Results for my project.

• Obfuscation - both fine.
• Optimisation - ProGuard produced 20% faster code (for the measured app bottleneck).
• Compactness - ProGuard about 5% smaller.
• Configuration / Ant - YGuard is much easier to configure.

So, I'd advise ProGuard - but configuration and ant integration could definitely be improved.

Answer 3

Proguard is a better product; especially if you take the time to go through the settings for J2ME.

Specifically for J2ME there is a far better (commercial) product called mBooster

I've been getting around 25% improvement in size on my application after its been through Proguard. This is mainly to do with the better Zip compression on the Jar file and comprehensive support for class merging and preverification.