decompile an app binary to get back to source code

iphone binary decompiler
Sam Jarman picture Sam Jarman · Apr 18, 2010 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

Is there anyway to take a binary - even signed by yourself, and get back to the code? I'm trying to recover something that I deleted a while ago... but have the binary here.

Any ideas?

Answer

Gregory Pakosz picture Gregory Pakosz · Apr 18, 2010

You can disassemble a binary and get back assembly source, but there is no way to get back your original Objective-C structured source code.

EDIT: You may want to give Hopper a try. I didn't try it personally yet but Mike Ash says it's good.

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