Does anyone have any stories to share involving apktool?
Random note: It's curious how the homepage and the linked repo are on GitHub but the binary downloads are served from bitbucket.
APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
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Re: APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
#22How much longer will this be relevant? Isn't APK going away?
In addition to sibling comment. APK is more or less zip file, with exception to one of signatures, all the interesting part that you want to reverse are the files inside it not the container: dalvik bytecode, binary encoded XML files of UI and other API specific resources.
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#23I just used apktool to debug an instrumentation issue, and it was a great help. I'm glad I learned that skill.
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#24APKTool is amazing! I wrote an article on how to do end-to-end reverse engineering of Android apps using APKTool: https://yasoob.me/posts/reverse-engineering-android-apps-apk... I love using Jadx ( https://github.com/skylot/jadx ) to get a better understanding of the code in Java and then use APKTool to reverse engineer, decompile and recompile the app If you are interested, Frida is also an amazing tool that makes c…
You probably cant answer this here at least:
Several UK TV apps are available on fire stick but not Android TV.
I've seen people de-Amazonify older versions of these, would Apktool be a good place to do this myself ?
I really just want to watch programs I already have access to on pretty similar hardware (Android TV), but getting more hardware for that just seems wasteful.
Re: APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
#25Does anyone have any stories to share involving apktool? Random note: It's curious how the homepage and the linked repo are on GitHub but the binary downloads are served from bitbucket.
Back from 2015, bypassing an APK signature check: https://randywestergren.com/reverse-engineering-the-yik-yak-...
Re: APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
#26year (2010)
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#27Does anyone have any stories to share involving apktool? Random note: It's curious how the homepage and the linked repo are on GitHub but the binary downloads are served from bitbucket.
When I moved the project from Google Code to GitHub, GitHub did not allow binary downloads. So I used Bitbucket, changing the download location again after moving did not seem right. So it has just been maintained since the switch. Now in present day they are also uploaded to GitHub and another mirror I host.
Re: APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
#28year (2010)
Initial release sure, but if you are looking at the website linked that was released in 2018 and the last major release (2.6.0) was released in 2021. So don't think 2010 is accurate.
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#29APKTool is amazing and have used it before to check the security on some apps. But it doesn't do much when it comes to apps made using flutter as the code is stored in a binary form. Wish if they consider adding a way to decompile that as well.
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#30I used this to remove ads from Instagram. It's a wonderful tool that gives you godlike powers over other people's apps when you know what you're doing.