Questions tagged [apk]
Android Application Package is the package file format used by the Android operating system for distribution and installation of mobile applications.
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Bypassing certificate pinning in android
I've spent the past 4 months trying to bypass certificate pinning in the Facebook android application so I can understand how it works, but I'm having trouble doing so.
I have tried using android ...
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Reverse Engineering an APP With Frida [closed]
I am trying to reverse engineer an app but I am having problems unlike the previous apps that I reverse engineered.....
When Untouched the app let's you login perfectly but when I reverse engineer it ...
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Reversed APK crashes after install
I'm trying to reverse an apk, overload some function and rebuild/sign it.
I should have done everything in the correct way; the only thing I edited is a function that check if the device is rooted.
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reversing apk - getting native code in classes.dex
I've start reversing some android application. I have a little experience in this subject, but i got stuck on a little matter.
The app i'm trying to reverse uses JNI (java native interface), meaning ...
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What's the most straightforward way to change a simple thing in Android APK java application?
I need to make some simple tweaks to Android APP that keeps crashing. Viewing the code and seeing possible problems is pretty simple.
I can either:
Use Apktool (eg. apktool d name_of_apk.apk -o ...
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Why can I not read .so file public functions compiled in C?
I can read the public functions (name and full signature) of some .so files that associated with Android APK, whereas others only show the function name.
For example, running this command only ...
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Analyzing an APK without tools [closed]
I know you can unpack APKs with apktool and the likes, however we're doing an exercise at uni where we're supposed to get some info like permissions declared and permissions used from some APKs ...
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Reverse engineering Android vendor system apps
I'm trying to reverse engineer certain Samsung system apps in the Galaxy S6 firmware system image, such as KnoxAttestationAgent.apk. I'm a noob when it comes to reverse engineering, and so far my ...
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I'm decompiling an apk file to learn how the creator designed the UI for their app. Are these layout files obfuscated?
I'm new to decompiling apps. Most of the apps I decompile aren't very popular, so obfuscation hasn't been a problem yet. I'm not entirely sure what obfuscation looks like. The current app I'm looking ...
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Android - Analyzing complex hash algorithm
An APK I'm working on uses some sort of algorithm to generate a hash which is sent along with an HTTP request. I want to figure out how the algorithm works.
Decompiling the APK to Java is of no help ...
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Extracting a .DAT file
I want to extract a chunk of text available in an android app.
I disassembled the APK and found a .DAT file which seems to carry the text I'm looking for (the file was inside the directory res/raw/).
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recompiling android app - native method not found
Been trying at this for over a week, and I'm able to modify the needed sections, however I'm running into a major issue while trying to recompile the APK that is making the whole task atrocious. So I'...
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Error decompiling apk [closed]
Ive a problem.
I am unable to decompile a game apk successfully. I am using apktool.
I get many errors and but i get thw files. But then many of its smali files doesnt have a .end method in its code ...
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How to verify that an Android Application & Library is correctly obfuscated
I have developed an Android Application with some data crunching inside a C library (NDK).
In order to protect the library code:
I have obfuscated the code with ProGuard and exported it in ...
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Inserting resources.properties file into an APK - language compatibility
I'm reverse engineering an android application. It's been a while since I've poked with this but I"m having an issue editing the APK to deal with some language areas.
The original app is from a ...
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Can a debug-apk be reverse engineered to make it a release-apk?
I am making a system in which the users can create Android applications. I want them to give an option to download a debug apk so that they can try it out first. After that, they have to pay for it to ...
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