Shrinker will remove all R.class and R$**.class and all constant integer fields will be inlined by asm and transform-api.
I have post more details on my own blog (in Chinese), click here to check it out.
shrinker from jitpack
To apply shrinker to your android application:
Step1. Add it in your buildscript section of app's build.gradle
buildscript {
repositories {
//...
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
dependencies {
classpath 'net.yrom:shrinker:0.2.9'
}
}
Step2. Apply it after the Android plugin
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
//...
apply plugin: 'net.yrom.shrinker'
NOTE that shrinker plugin requires android gradle build tools version at least 3.0.0 and it will be disabled if run in debug build.
There is a small test application which depends on so many support libraries, would show how many fields shrinked.
Run with shrinker:
./gradlew :test:assembleRelease -PENABLE_SHRINKER
Run with removeUnusedCode:
android {
buildTypes {
release {
...
postprocessing {
removeUnusedCode = true
}
}
}
...
}Content below counts by dexcount-gradle-plugin
| options | methods | fields | classes |
|---|---|---|---|
| origin | 22164 | 14367 | 2563 |
| shrinker | 21979 | 7805 | 2392 |
| removeUnusedCode | 11338 | 6655 | 1296 |
| shrinker & removeUnusedCode | 11335 | 3302 | 1274 |
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