Mobile application security, especially time spent on applying it, is often seen as a necessary evil. Security tools that are actually effective require additional configuration efforts, and that doesn't always line up with the skillset needed to build great mobile apps. To optimize apps for performance, another set of manual processes is required to configure the build tools. On top of that, even when developers manage to configure these tools, app security and performance improvements are not always guaranteed nor noticeable by the end users. What if the skillset required for using these protection tools would overlap with regular app development skills? What if using these tools would actually remove some of the manual work required to optimise your application and save you time? In this talk we will show how this is now a reality! Attendees will have the following take-aways: - A brief overview of advanced R8 optimisation features and the effort that goes into using them correctly. - Insight in the concept of profile based optimisations, its shared benefits for application protection and the amount of manual work it can prevent. - A demo show-casing how easy it can be to run through a profile based configuration step. - Practical and concrete examples of the non-security related benefits of a profile based configuration approach, e.g. automatic R8 baseline profiles, auto-generated keep-rules tailored to your code, order files to speed up native code loading, additional app size reductions beyond R8
Ryan Lloyd
Chief Product Officer
