How can code obfuscation help protect a Flutter app's actual business logic from being easily reverse engineered by an attacker who obtains a copy of the compiled release build?

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Code obfuscation systematically renames your app's actual class names, method names, and other identifiers within the compiled release build into meaningless, hard to interpret short names, making it considerably more difficult, though admittedly never fully completely impossible, for an attacker to meaningfully reverse engineer your app's actual underlying business logic simply by examining the compiled binary, and Flutter provides built in support for this through a simple command line flag passed directly during your actual release build process, which is generally considered a reasonably worthwhile additional protective layer for any app containing genuinely proprietary or sensitive business logic.