How to tell ProGuard to obfuscate method and class names?

Question

I'm using ProGuard to obfuscate my apk, but there's no changes in class and method names - they are same as before. Only variable names are changed.

Most of them doesn't extends classes like Activity; there's some inheritance in my code, but it's 100% written by myself.

I'm using d2j-dex2jar and jd-gui to check results.

Some of classes are excluded because of GSON usage, here is my proguard-project.txt:

-keep class com.google.ads.** # Don't proguard AdMob classes
-dontwarn com.google.ads.** # Temporary workaround for v6.2.1. It gives a warning that you can ignore

# Add any classes the interact with gson
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.PlayerData
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.SettingsDescriptor
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.ShipStatus
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.descriptors.ShipDescriptor
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.descriptors.Ships
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.game.galaxies.Galaxies

-keep public class com.badlogic.** {*;}



##---------------Begin: proguard configuration common for all Android apps ----------
-optimizationpasses 5
-dontusemixedcaseclassnames
-dontskipnonpubliclibraryclasses
-dontskipnonpubliclibraryclassmembers
-dontpreverify
-verbose
-dump class_files.txt
-printseeds seeds.txt
-printusage unused.txt
-printmapping mapping.txt
-optimizations !code/simplification/arithmetic,!field/*,!class/merging/*

-allowaccessmodification
-keepattributes *Annotation*
-renamesourcefileattribute SourceFile
-keepattributes SourceFile,LineNumberTable
-repackageclasses ''

-keep public class * extends android.app.Activity
-keep public class * extends android.app.Application
-keep public class * extends android.app.Service
-keep public class * extends android.content.BroadcastReceiver
-keep public class * extends android.content.ContentProvider
-keep public class * extends android.app.backup.BackupAgentHelper
-keep public class * extends android.preference.Preference
-keep public class com.android.vending.licensing.ILicensingService
-dontnote com.android.vending.licensing.ILicensingService

# Explicitly preserve all serialization members. The Serializable interface
# is only a marker interface, so it wouldn't save them.
-keepclassmembers class * implements java.io.Serializable {
    static final long serialVersionUID;
    private static final java.io.ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields;
    private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream);
    private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream);
    java.lang.Object writeReplace();
    java.lang.Object readResolve();
}

# Preserve all native method names and the names of their classes.
-keepclasseswithmembernames class * {
    native <methods>;
}

-keepclasseswithmembernames class * {
    public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet);
}

-keepclasseswithmembernames class * {
    public <init>(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet, int);
}

# Preserve static fields of inner classes of R classes that might be accessed
# through introspection.
-keepclassmembers class **.R$* {
  public static <fields>;
}

# Preserve the special static methods that are required in all enumeration classes.
-keepclassmembers enum * {
    public static **[] values();
    public static ** valueOf(java.lang.String);
}

-keep public class * {
    public protected *;
}

-keep class * implements android.os.Parcelable {
  public static final android.os.Parcelable$Creator *;
}
##---------------End: proguard configuration common for all Android apps ----------

##---------------Begin: proguard configuration for Gson  ----------
# Gson uses generic type information stored in a class file when working with fields. Proguard
# removes such information by default, so configure it to keep all of it.
-keepattributes Signature

# For using GSON @Expose annotation
-keepattributes *Annotation*

# Gson specific classes
-keep class sun.misc.Unsafe { *; }
#-keep class com.google.gson.stream.** { *; }

# Application classes that will be serialized/deserialized over Gson
-keep class com.google.gson.examples.android.model.** { *; }

##---------------End: proguard configuration for Gson  ----------

Answer 1

If you have this problem with Components (Activity, Services or BroadcastReceivers) classes then this is OK.

Proguard doesn't obfuscate the names of Components.

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And if you are taking about the classes which defined as

-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.PlayerData
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.SettingsDescriptor
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.playerdata.ShipStatus
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.descriptors.ShipDescriptor
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.descriptors.Ships
-keep class com.revicostudio.gravityrun.game.galaxies.Galaxies

ALSO their name can not be changed, because of keep option.

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Make a try with removing -keep public class * { public protected *; } line

Answer 2

Some time class name obfuscation don't work cause of "butterknife" So add below rules in your proguard file.

# Butterknife
-dontwarn butterknife.internal.**
-keep class butterknife.** { *; } 
-keep class **$$ViewInjector { *; }
-keepclasseswithmembernames class * {
    @butterknife.InjectView <fields>;
}
-keepclasseswithmembernames class * {
    @butterknife.OnClick <methods>;
    @butterknife.OnEditorAction <methods>;
    @butterknife.OnItemClick <methods>;
    @butterknife.OnItemLongClick <methods>;
    @butterknife.OnLongClick <methods>;
}

NOTE: Use above rules only when you are using "butterknife".