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Android Publish an Android App Publishing on Google Play Removing Log Calls

Fabrice Cochet
Fabrice Cochet
1,035 Points

Log always present

I made the modification in the two files build.gradle and proguad-rules.pro and I check that android:debuggable was not present.

But when we start the app, the log are always present.

1 Answer

Fabrice Cochet
Fabrice Cochet
1,035 Points

I understand why there is this behaviour.

I tought that : "Run" is in release mode and "Debug" is in debug mode

In fact, "Run" and "Debug" are both in debug mode.

In the build.gradle, I changed

buildTypes { release { runProguard true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } }

by

buildTypes { build { runProguard true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } }

And the log disapeared.

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Sorry for the confusion here! You can also test a release APK by putting the APK file on your device and installing it from there. You just need to allow installations from unknown sources to go this route.