
Game is absolutely not protected, such as we have the original class and method names. It is worth mentioning that only a subset of the game is obfuscated. However, it’s still a start and there are some reports that even 6.0.1 users can no longer spoof, which means there is potential that this patch will land on lower Android versions.PokemonGO is a target of choice for reverse engineers and some critical functionalities are protected by a commercial solution.


We’ll be monitoring this and updating our community as time goes on. There are already reports from early adopters that this security update disables GPS spoofing on following devices:Īpparently the patch is a part of Google’s March security updates and there is some indication that lower Android versions (6.0.1) could be receiving the same security update. In previous versions of Android, fake GPS apps were able to change users GPS location without disclosing that to the system, making it impossible for Pokémon GO to detect usage of such apps. According to a code change in Android 7.1, apps that fake (mock) GPS location will no longer be able to hide that fact from the Android location subsystem. It seems like in the near future, GPS spoofing will become a thing of the past.
