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Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
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Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Steps to reverse engineer Android apps

APK files can be reverse engineered in different ways to get the original code. The following is one method that uses the dex2jar and JD-GUI tools to gain access to the application code. For our example, we will examine the com.twitter.android-1.apk file. The following are the steps to successfully reverse engineer the APK file:

  1. Rename the APK extension to ZIP to see the contents of the file. Rename the com.twitter.android-1.apk file to twitter.android-1.zip, and extract the contents of this file using any file archiver application. The following screenshot shows the files extracted from the original file twitter.android-1.zip:
Extracted files of an APK file
  1. The classes.dex file discussed in the ...
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ISBN: 9781788839198