How to decompile an APK or DEX file on Android platform?

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user3151261 picture user3151261 · Jan 9, 2014 · Viewed 268.4k times · Source

Is it possible to decompile an APK package or DEX file on Android platform? Are there any tools that can decompile an APK file?

Answer

Rupesh Yadav picture Rupesh Yadav · Jan 9, 2014

You need Three Tools to decompile an APK file.

  1. Dex2jar - Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files

  2. ApkTool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

  3. JD-GUI - Java Decompiler is a tools to decompile and analyze Java 5 “byte code” and the later versions.

for more how-to-use-dextojar. Hope this will help You and all! :)

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