Question

Conside the following code structure for android:

package blah;
class A{
    class B{
        public void foo(String s){
        }
    } 
}

How can I tell proguard to not remove or obfuscate foo.
foo is unused function in code at compile time but is run at run-time from another code.

I have tried:

-keep class blah.A.B;

-keepclassmembers class blah.A.B {
  public void foo(String s);
}

etc. but nothing stops Proguard from removing that function.
I do not want proguard to change name of ‘foo’. Proguard may change the name of class A or class B but not the function name ‘foo’.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Almost right. In java bytecode, the $ character separates the names of inner classes and their outer classes (to avoid ambiguities with package names). So, to keep just the method:

-keepclassmembers class blah.A$B {
  public void foo(java.lang.String);
}