Extracting application resources via ADB
The following recipe shows you how to do some snooping on your Android applications. Namely, find out what kind of data structures they are using to store important information and what kind of information they are storing, for example, high scores, passwords, contacts, and e-mails. Besides allowing you to set your high score to a negative number, this is an effective way for you to influence application behavior from its backend. It also gives you a perspective on how applications protect their users' data, for example, is the data encrypted? How is it encrypted? Does the application protect the integrity of the user data? It also makes for a very useful skill when reverse engineering and assessing application ...
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