Is there any example Android project / known compatible Gradle version?
I tried to use dProtect in Android project with Gradle versions 7.* and 8.* , but I couldn't make it work. Is there any example Android project that uses Gradle 7.* / which version of Gradle should work?
So far I found out Proguard is not compatible with AGP 8 (Android Studio already comes with AGP 8 by default) (https://github.com/open-obfuscator/dProtect/issues/1 , https://github.com/Guardsquare/proguard/issues/280)
Came here from the issue you mentioned. Following may help you, or may not =)
Proguard itself works for me with AGP 7.4.2 (it's com.android.application in root build.gradle) and Gradle version 7.6.3 (it's in