Android/Java obfuscation : R8 vs (ProGuard or DexGuard)?

Question

I wonder what is the most powerful obfuscation tool (to avoid reverse engineering):

• between R8 and ProGuard
• between R8 and DexGuard

Thanks.

Answer 1

R8 is an APK minification tool, and it is not a goal to try to make the code difficult to reverse engineer. The term "obfuscation" is inherited from ProGuard, but internally in the code base the term "minification" is used.