A quick way of disabling the logs for release builds is using ProGuard to take care of it. To do it in our current project we’ve created two ProGuard configurations, the one that applies for all the builds and the one that only applies for the release build.
Then, we can configure the build.gradle file like this:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
// snip...
android {
// snip...
buildTypes {
release {
// snip...
// Enable ProGuard
minifyEnabled true
// Common release options
zipAlignEnabled true
debuggable false
jniDebuggable false
// Notice that the default ProGuard file (SDK-provided) also enables optimization
// Here we also include a third file which disables the logging (see below)
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro', 'proguard-rules-disable-logging.pro'
}
debug {
// We enable ProGuard also for debug builds
minifyEnabled true
// Notice that the default ProGuard file (SDK-provided) differs from the release one
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
The file to disable logging is as simple as that:
##
## Disable logging
##
# Disable Android logging
-assumenosideeffects class android.util.Log {
public static boolean isLoggable(java.lang.String, int);
public static int v(...);
public static int i(...);
public static int w(...);
public static int d(...);
public static int e(...);
}
# This gets rid of System.out.println() and System.out.print()
# WARNING: if you're using this functions for other PrintStreams in your app, this can break things!
-assumenosideeffects class java.io.PrintStream {
public void println(...);
public void print(...);
}