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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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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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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Working with Android obfuscation
In the case of an PE file or an ELF file, there is quite a lot of material out there on how to approach deobfuscation, dumping from memory, reconstructing symbols etc. For android binaries that does ...
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How Do I get proficient at Reverse engineering?
Please bear with me as I explain this situation.
Maybe 10 days ago I took up the challenge of reverse engineering an Android app. Learning from scratch, I installed ADB, Apktool, Android Studio, ...
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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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Android (4.4+) SSL wireless sniffing without certificate changing
I wish to analyze the unencrypted data sent of SSL by an Android APK that uses certificate pinning.
This suspicious APK is used to configure a wireless device.
I need to determine two things:
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Debugging third party android APKs
What are some ways to debug third party android apps (apps you don't have the source code to)? I would like to step through the APK instruction by instruction, and possibly set breakpoints on certain ...
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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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Repackaging APK file using baksmali and smali
I am a student interested in Android Security. I was trying to modify a APK file using baksmali and smali. However, I am not able to run the repackaged app in my mobile. When I click on the icon it ...
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How to monitor APK files in Android System
Is there a monitoring tool for Android except logcat which works like Process Monitor in Windows ?
Thanks
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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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