Is it possible to get a source code of an android app installed in my phone?

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Well, I've lost a source to my project by accident but I have this app installed on my phone with ctrl+F11 from eclipse.

Now, all I can do is to compress this app to an apk and take the code out with dex2jar and resources with apktool.

But the code after decompiling is quite different and not the same I wrote.

IS there any other way to extract java code from my phone other than compress it to apk (with backup) and decompile it?

I really need that code :(

If it was in Eclipse, btw, you should be able to get it from local history, no? — Dave Newton, Nov 04 '14 at 22:09
you see, I added a repo with egit plugin and then decided to delete repo and it deleted the whole project ! what should I do to get from local history please? — Lyubov Alekseeva, Nov 04 '14 at 22:15
Here is the answer. See the next Link. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3593420/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-source-code-from-an-apk-file — Gilberto Ibarra, Nov 04 '14 at 22:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '14 at 21:56

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Not to my knowledge. The app installed in your phone is always the compiled version. While decompiling can get you the logic back, it will always be like generated code instead of the exact code you compiled.

answered Nov 04 '14 at 21:56

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Is it possible to get a source code of an android app installed in my phone?

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