Hi all,
I’m trying to export an Android APK with Proguard and I’m getting this error:
[2015-05-06 19:29:31 - Metronome-android] Proguard returned with error code 1. See console
[2015-05-06 19:29:31 - Metronome-android] proguard.ParseException: Unknown option '(' in argument number 14
[2015-05-06 19:29:31 - Metronome-android] at proguard.ConfigurationParser.parse(ConfigurationParser.java:191)
[2015-05-06 19:29:31 - Metronome-android] at proguard.ProGuard.main(ProGuard.java:484)
The config file mentioned here already exists in my Android project folder, which is named “proguard-project.txt”.
And in the project.properties file I uncommented the line specified in the comments to enable ProGuard and resaved the file:
# To enable ProGuard to shrink and obfuscate your code, uncomment this (available properties: sdk.dir, user.home):
proguard.config=${sdk.dir}/tools/proguard/proguard-android.txt:proguard-project.txt
I’m using Eclipse and to export the APK, I right-clicked the Android project and selected: Android Tools --> Export Signed Application Package
Then I went through the process to export it. When I clicked “Finish” I got the error mentioned above.
I have been able to successfully run ProGuard on a desktop application but I can’t get the Android version to work, any ideas what I’m doing wrong? Thanks!
EDIT: I had parenthesis in my Eclipse project’s file path and apparently that was causing ProGuard to crash. Creating a new project with no white space or odd symbols in the file path fixed the problem.