Strings are not obfuscated on build time

[d-moreira]

Hello,

I'm following https://github.com/efraespada/AndroidStringObfuscator/blob/master/README.md#gradle-implementation but the string resources are no longer obfuscated during build time (everything was working fine with these instructions https://github.com/efraespada/AndroidStringObfuscator/blob/3451745f18fdc97ca58b271d238eef60511b348b/README.md).

My root_project/build.gradle looks like:

...

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2'
        classpath "com.efraespada:stringobfuscatorplugin:0.4.1"
        ...
    }
}
apply plugin: com.efraespada.stringobfuscatorplugin.StringObfuscatorPlugin

and my root_project/app/build.gradle looks like:

repositories {
    jcenter()
} 
 
dependencies {
    compile "efraespada:androidstringobfuscator:0.4.1"
}

Am I missing something? How are the strings supposed to be obfuscated during build time after removing the AndroidStringObfuscator.jar and the code to use it?

[efraespada]

@d-moreira the new plugin replaces the JARfile. It should find in res folder every strings.xml file and encrypt every string value with hidden attribute as true.

What is printing your Gradle console?

[d-moreira]

Ok, it's working now :) I was trying to obfuscate some strings on a res/values/secrets.xml file, which worked previously.

So the plugin only looks for strings on strings.xml files? Can you consider extending the functionality to look for string resources on any .xml file under res/values at least? And also update the documentation to reflect this limitation.

Thanks!

[efraespada]

I was thinking something like this on module's build.gradle:

stringobfuscator {
    srcFolder = ["src/main/res"]
    stringFiles = ["strings.xml", "secrets.xml"]
}

Of course, I'll update the documentation. Thanks for your patient.

[d-moreira]

That would be even better. Thank you!

[efraespada]

@d-moreira hope it helps you! v.0.5.0.

[d-moreira]

Tested and working!

Thanks for your work :)