Enable minification of release builds without obfuscation

Obfuscation makes nearly no difference in size for this project. No reason to make life harder for folks who want to inspect the compiled binaries. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gunnerson <[email protected]>
chenxiaolong · May 28, 2022 · c4d01fe · c4d01fe
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diff --git a/app/build.gradle.kts b/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ android {
     }
     buildTypes {
         getByName("release") {
-            isMinifyEnabled = false
+            isMinifyEnabled = true
+            isShrinkResources = true
             proguardFiles(getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro")
 
             signingConfig = signingConfigs.getByName("release")

diff --git a/app/magisk/updates/release/changelog.txt b/app/magisk/updates/release/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+### Unreleased
+
+* Enable minification (without obfuscation) to shrink the download size by ~64% (PR: #45, @chenxiaolong)
+
 ### Version 1.5
 
 * Optionally add contact name to output filename if Contacts permission is granted (Android 11+) (Issue: #28, PR: #42, @chenxiaolong)

diff --git a/app/proguard-rules.pro b/app/proguard-rules.pro
@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@
 
 # Uncomment this to preserve the line number information for
 # debugging stack traces.
-#-keepattributes SourceFile,LineNumberTable
+-keepattributes SourceFile,LineNumberTable
 
 # If you keep the line number information, uncomment this to
 # hide the original source file name.
-#-renamesourcefileattribute SourceFile
+#-renamesourcefileattribute SourceFile
+
+# Disable obfuscation completely for BCR. As an open source project,
+# shrinking is the only goal of minification.
+-dontobfuscate