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De-obfuscate the stack trace using Proguard GUI 


Store the Proguard mapping.txt file for each released APK, which will be useful to de-obfuscate crash or exception stack trace.

Steps to retrace :-

1. Go to your SDK location -> Android_SDK\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20131030\sdk\tools\proguard\bin folder

2. Run retrace.bat file , choose "Retrace" option.

3. Add your proper mapping.txt

4. And paste the dumped stack trace , stack trace should be from "at" on each line

5. Proguard will replace all method and class names according to the mapping file.

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