Obfuscation

The Shielding Tool tool supports obfuscating Java classes. By default, only the no.promon.shield namespace will be obfuscated, but obfuscation can be completely enabled for the entire application.

Obfuscation is not the primary function of App Shielding or the Shielding Tool, but is a complementary feature to make it more difficult for an attacker to analyze the application. From an obfuscation strength point of view, the Shielding Tool will perform comparably to other commercially available obfuscation tools, or better than ProGuard which is included with the official Android SDK.

The obfuscation step will include one encrypted dataset to the runtime configuration file in the assets/ folder.