This month we are kicking off our ProGuard® 20th Anniversary celebrations with a giveaway!
Here we'll take you through ProGuard®'s journey over the past two decades and how it's grown from a small hobby project to a leading open-source Java optimization tool.
Right from the start ProGuard® was readily available for Android covered desktop, server and early mobile devices using J2ME.
By the end of 2004, Java was running on 1.5 billion devices.
Bytecode optimization was added in 2004 to shrink applications even more.
The release of Android 2.3 (gingerbread) marked the first release that made ProGuard® readily available for Android developers worldwide.
Layered on top of ProGuard®, DexGuard becomes the preferred choice by Android developers to protect their app from static and dynamic analysis.
The first DexGuard logo
Our portfolio of solutions now protects over 6 billion app users.
Between 2002 and 2020 ProGuard® would see over 1 million downloads from SourceForge.
With ProGuardCORE, developers can now easily use the same tools used by ProGuard® & DexGuard for code analysis and bytecode manipulation in their own projects.
To this day, we've seen over 100 conversations about ProGuard® and other Guardsquare open source tools.
ProGuardCORE is used to build the Java code analysis for the new AppSweep mobile app security testing tool.
Playgrounds created: 3,134
Configs evaluated: 21,008
