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Android Security Cookbook
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Android Security Cookbook

by Keith Makan
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Decompiling DEX to Java

The DEX code, as we know, is compiled from Java, which is a pretty semantic, easy-to-read language, and I'm sure some of you are wondering by now whether it's possible to decompile the DEX code back into Java? Well, the good news is that this is possible, of course, depending on the quality of the decompiler you are using and the complexity of the DEX code. This is because unless you understand how the DEX code actually works, you will always be at the mercy of your DEX decompiler. There are many ways to thwart the popular decompilers such as reflection and non-standard DEX opcode variants, so if you're hoping that this recipe means you can call yourself an Android reverse engineer even though you are unable to read the ...

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