Does the program need to be confused?

Question

My xamarin.forms program is ready to be packaged and released to Google play. Does the program need to be confused? If not confused, can it be decompiled and get the source code. How to confuse?

Answer 1

Hello,​

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

In Xamarin.Android, we can prevent users or attackers from debugging, tampering, or reverse engineering the application by disabling debugging, obfuscating the managed code, adding anti-debug and anti-tamper, and using native compilation.

• Application Protection with Dotfuscator
• Bundle Assemblies into Native Code
• AOT Compilation & LLVM Optimizing Compiler

For more details, you could refer to this doc:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/release-prep/?tabs=windows#protect-the-application

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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Answer 2

zhang:
Tahnk you very much.
I have create my icon, it is ok.
I use Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1, but I don't find Dotfuscator tool in vs2022.