Remove Logging With Proguard

I am trying to remove the log statements without success. Other SO answers to the same question refer to Eclipse or to an old Android Studio IDE (Intellij). build.gradle buildType

Solution 1:

a change in the build.gradle, replacing the default proguard-android.txt with proguard-android-optimize.txt did the trick.

buildTypes {
release {
    minifyEnabled true
    proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
...

Note: the default proguard setting in gradle is proguard-android.txt