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Android: Getting source code from an APK file
Is it possible to reverse engineer a APK file to get the actual code? Please advice. Thank you.
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You can use http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/ to convert to a JAR file then open it using http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui
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Is there a way to get the xml files. I get all the code files. Thank you. – Vinod Jun 07 '11 at 04:55
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@Vinodtiru the tool I linked can get you the resource files. – Nathan Schwermann Jun 07 '11 at 05:08
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@Abdullah Jibaly i have downloaded dex2jar but i dont know how to use it? Can you please tell me? – Naveen Chauhan Sep 11 '12 at 05:35
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Extract it, copy the .apk to the folder, use CMD to navigate to the folder, use d2j-dex2jar
to convert to a .jar file – Gerard Sep 18 '13 at 09:54 -
@Vinodtiru Try DDMS. It shows at least the layouts and the built in Views with their sizes and hierarchies. – Kovács Imre Nov 27 '13 at 01:24
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Its possible to get the dalvik byte code and the resources decompiled using Apk Tool
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Is there a way to get the Java code or any human understandable code? Thank you for your time. – Vinod Jun 07 '11 at 03:09
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How can I use this tool to get the xml file. I run the cmd "aapt.exe l c:\app.apk". With this i get the list of files. But when I replace the l command to d. I do not get the dump. Basicall I want to get the folder or file with xml from APK. Is this possible? – Vinod Jun 07 '11 at 05:37
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I just tested this command and it works `apktool d MyApp.apk ./MyAppDump` – Nathan Schwermann Jun 07 '11 at 06:02
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Sorry. I had done the installation wrong. I am able to get the xml file now. Thank you for your time. – Vinod Jun 07 '11 at 06:45
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for Reverse engineering process or getting code from the apk file http://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/
