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Last year I developed an Android app for my phone and loaded it on, and have been using it ever since. Unfortunately I had to reformat my computer and lost the source files to this android app. If the app was loaded in debugging mode, is there any possible way to extract the app and its source files for editing back onto my computer?

Thanks in advance!

Dave McGregor
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    Use another app such as Astro to get the APK (or even a file explorer), then [decompile](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3593420/android-getting-source-code-from-an-apk-file?rq=1) – A--C Feb 10 '13 at 17:17
  • Here is good answer [extracting source files from apk][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3593420/android-getting-source-code-from-an-apk-file?rq=1 – Kels Feb 10 '13 at 17:20

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  1. get APKTool , place its executables in a folder

  2. Run adb pull /data/app/<your_app_name>.apk , now you got the apk file ,place it in same folder as apktool

  3. run ./apktool d <apk_file_name> <output_folder>, apk sources will be reconstructed in output folder.
S.D.
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