How to

Luckily, obfuscating the Android app during the building process is already provided by Google, so just copying the following code into the <Project> element in the .csproj file is enough. For more details, please see the reference. 1 2

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)|$(Platform)'=='Release|net8.0-android|AnyCPU'">
    <AndroidLinkTool>r8</AndroidLinkTool>
</PropertyGroup>

Reference

  1. Jonathan Peppers et al. (2018). What is D8? What is R8?. Retrieved from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/blob/main/Documentation/guides/D8andR8.md#what-is-d8-what-is-r8 ↩︎

  2. Google. (2024). Shrink, obfuscate, and optimize your app - Android Developers. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20240408175349/https://developer.android.com/build/shrink-code?authuser=1 ↩︎