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I have been searching around the web for some days and I have not found any known way/tool/library to disassemble APK file into source code from my app. My goal is to get readable java files from the ...
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I have use of 3 tools as 1)apktool 1.5.2.tar.bz2 2)dex2jar-0.0.9.13.zip 3)jd-gui-0.3.5.windows.zip But i got following error on cmd when i use command on cmd as: C:\New folder\Tea.apk>dex2jar ...
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I have some questions regarding dex files What is a dex file in Android? How does dex work for Android? How are they used in debugging an Android app? Are they similar to java class files? I need ...
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I find the solution to decompile a file dex to jar from this link https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar but i don't understand how to use it.
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I downloaded APK Manager that lets me unpack APK files. But it only unpacks it and doesn't decompile the .smali file to .java. Is it possible to decompile the .smali to .java?
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I'm trying the new MultiDex Support on my app and so far I've managed to compile my app correctly, but when running it, I get the following exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to ...
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Are the users able to convert the apk file of my application back to the actual code? If they do - is there any way to prevent this?
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As we know, Android apps are written in Java. In Java, no matter what you do, it is impossible to protect compiled code from decompilation or reverse-engineering, as the Stack Overflow question How to ...
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I have android application that has hard coded (static string constants) credentials (user/pass) for sending emails via SMTP. The problem is that .dex file in .apk can be easily reverse-engineered ...
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Is it possible to set the log levels on a device that is not rooted? so I want to change the device log level somehow to "debug". is this something that can be done? since its not rooted i dont ...
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On the iPhone there are several ways to detect when user opens the version of your app that was pirated. Is there a way on the Android to detect when an user is using the pirated version of your app?
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I have an Android project that I recently published to the market after running it through obfuscation with ProGuard. The project exported without any complications, but how do I know it's been ...
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I know how to extract apk files to classes using a windows based system as below: Step 1:Renaming .apk file Rename the .apk file with the extension .zip (for example let the file be "demofile....
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I'm working with baksmali/smali tools. But sometimes I need to compile .java class to .smali file. So I've to first compile it with Eclipse and second disassemble the .APK to a set of .smali files. ...
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I compiled and ran a project on my phone through eclipse which is still install there currently. While doing some directory cleaning I accidentally deleted the source code so the only remaining ...
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