What is meant the minifyEnabled false in the release block in the gradle.build file

Question

Perhaps my question seems a simple question and duplicate. But it is for me an important question. I have android studio 1.3 and when I create a new default project and the

Answer 1

Flag minifyEnabled stays for ProGuard, and it's turned off by default. So, in default setup both debug and release builds aren't using ProGuard, and parameter proguardFiles is effectively ignored