Can I refactor name libcocos2dcpp.so?

Question

libcocos2dcpp.so is located at path proj.android\libs\armeabi

1) I want to learn to modify how it looks after changing the name "libcocos2dcpp.so" to some "randomname.so"

(Intention being, not sure but it might help in protecting my game's source code if people won't know in which thing it is made, I mean cpp because libcocos2dcpp.so has cpp in its end)

2) Also, is this libcocos2dcpp.so created newly every time I build my code or does it remains same through its entire life time?

Answer 1

You can change your lib name by using LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME in the Android.mk file . According to ANDROID-MK document under Android-NDK folder:

LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME
    This variable is optional, and allows you to redefine the name of
    generated files. By default, module <foo> will always generate a
    static library named lib<foo>.a or a shared library named lib<foo>.so,
    which are standard Unix conventions.

    You can override this by defining LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME, For example:

        LOCAL_MODULE := foo-version-1
        LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME := libfoo

    NOTE: You should not put a path or file extension in your
    LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME, these will be handled automatically by the
    build system.

You can just rename your lib file name as

LOCAL_MODULE := randomname
LOCAL_MODULE_FILENAME := librandomname

so the build system will automatically build the lib as librandomname.so.

And don't forget to change the code in Android Activity:

static {
    System.loadLibrary("randomname");
}