Any plans for making any of these expressions constant?

companion object {
   const val TAG1 = this.javaClass.simpleName
   const val TAG2 = MainActivity::class.simpleName!!
}

Obfuscation mangles class names so having them assigned to constants before obfuscation pass would be greatly useful. (Or is there a way to this that I'm missing)

That would be confusing for use cases when you actually need the obfuscated class names

Just skip

const

and they will be obfuscated

That's pretty shady, I would expect the

const

qualifier to not actually change the value of things.

this is probably the only scenario where it actually changes behavior from regular

var

Yes, and that's the problem.

I don't see it as a problem, obfuscation changes classes and this just "avoids" obfuscation's change

No,

const

is only used as an optimization. It should never change the variable value.

but

const

isn't changing the value, it's the obfuscator.

const

just inlines the value as the documentation says.