DashO (software)

Not to be confused with Dasho, a Bhutanese honorific.

DashO is a code obfuscator, compactor^{[clarification needed]}, optimizer, watermarker^{[clarification needed]},^[2] and encryptor for Java, Kotlin and Android applications.^[3] It aims to achieve little or no performance loss even as the code complexity increases.^[4][5]

DashO

Developer(s)	Preemptive Solutions, LLC
Initial release	January 1997; 28 years ago (1997-01)[1]
Stable release	12.1.0 / 2 August 2023; 21 months ago (2023-08-02)
Operating system	Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android.
Type	Code obfuscator
License	Proprietary software
Website	www.preemptive.com/products/dasho

DashO can also statically analyze the code to find unused types, methods, and fields, and delete them, thereby making the application smaller. DashO can delete used methods that are not needed in published applications, such as debugging and logging calls.

See also

• Dotfuscator — a code obfuscator for .NET.
• ProGuard (software) — a code obfuscator for Java.