Make Synthetic

Make Synthetic — Options

The Make Synthetic — Options panel lets you control if and how synthetic flags are added to fields and methods. Synthetic flags confuse some de-compilers

Make Synthetic

This obfuscation marks methods and fields as synthetic, generated by the Java compiler, which confuses some decompilers. It has four possible settings:

• Never – No methods or fields are affected.

• Only private and package – Methods and fields that are private or package-private are made synthetic.

• If not public – Methods and fields that are private, package-private, or protected are made synthetic.

• All – All methods and fields are made synthetic.

This setting is stored in the <make-synthetic> Section of the project file.

Note: When obfuscating a library, use a Make Synthetic option of Never, Only private and package, or If not public. Choosing Always will prevent the library from being properly exposed to your end users.

Make Synthetic — Exclude

The Make Synthetic Exclude panel let you compose rules that determine which parts of the application will have will not be marked synthetic. Methods, classes, or entire packages can be selected.

See Graphical Rules Editor for details.