Hi,
Is there a way how to decompile apks??
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Apk's can be opened using winrar.
they are just zip files.
If its open source, then just grab the source.
If its not then any kind of reverse engenering is illegal (i believe)
depends on what your purpose, if you want to just see the contents, then change the extension to .zip and open it (the for-dummies way) or just open it with 7z (the propper way). If you want to change the actual behavior or properties of the program, then google smali/baksmali. You get low-level decompiled code which you can modify, then re-compile, and add it back to the app.
Before people say anything, I do believe this does belong in development, I mean, if all those cheap-hack job hero roms belong in development, then sure as hell questions like these belong here too.
Start asking your questions in the right sub-forum (Q&A) (Theme) or even in (General), or simply search.......Final result will be a ban for you up too 3 days.
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I'm new to this and I've asked people for help but nobody seems to can BUT if you can show me how I can edit things like, change the folder to where you d/l a MMS or edit the size of the favorited person on FB.
There is no general answer to this question. You must reverse engineer an app and find a way, how to modify what you want.
Ok, I'm listening and willing to learn, but for the touted of such an open source OS like Android, I find it VERY difficult that I cant do things like save pics to a different folder other than "all downloads". There must be a way I can edit the strings or permission to the access of this folder only for downloads.
You dev/themers/etc are simply amazing and I had an idea/request and by no means am trying to create any extra work for you. When you guys develop a rom/theme/mod whatever can you put that category in the actual name of the zip file?
Example AlteredBeastAlpha5.zip could be [ROM] AlteredBeastAlpha5.zip? I know it is becoming standard to name the threads like that but I think it would benefit the community if the files where also named this way.
Maybe its just my OCD but its just an idea and hopefully this makes sense or benefits the community. I searched and didn't see a request like this but if this has been asked or is not needed or everyone thinks I am full of poop Mods please delete.
Murd0ck
Spaces in file names that you intend to upload/host somewhere for download can create problems.
Is there a way to take a particular .apk file, pull out .xml language files, translate the words and put them all back in?
I think you'd need to decompile the APK then let it know the other language files are there (but I'm not 100% sure)
Max. (From my Galaxy 2)
Yep, there is
Decompile the apk
Open up the folder, and then find the file strings.xml - translate all strings in that file - recompile - n u r done
That's obviously assuming it was developed using standard development methods. It's possible that all the string values are hard-coded into the application, in which case you can't do it (easily).
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The majority of developers don't code strings into code I could say in Android as the development environment warns you about them. So you can safely say that MOST of the strings that need to be translated are in strings.xml
Before Google Translate API was a paid service I was using a chrome plugin (not sure what it was called. and an eclipse plugin called androlate which creates the string.xml files for you.
But now you can't use any of them.
I wanted to open up a little chat here about what decompilers themers and developers are using to crack this bad boy open. I have tried autoapktool, but that one is giving me errors left and right. I will continue to try new ones and post the ones I find work best, but I was curious as to see what other people have found / use / like / dislike.
Rather off track for a dev discussion.
Esp since the one you posted-auto apktool is a wrapper for apktool.
There are only two tools for decompiling-the original smali/baksmali and apktool. Wrappers arent important. I dont like any of them, and use a collection of my own scripts whenever I have to decompile.
As mentioned, there aren't many actual choices (but several wrappers.)
This is kind of borderline on if it's a dev discussion or not. My opinion is that the OP is somewhat off, but the result might be useful as a reference (and will also fuel my flame thrower if/when someone else posts a similar item without searching.)
I also can't think of a better section for this type of thing (at least until something called "XDA-U" shows up.)
The rules for this sub forum state that this section can be used for discussion of any kind of development. Themeing and modding pre existing roms may not be high level stuff, like porting cm or having issues with a custom kernel... but it is still development. That's why modded roms get posted in the development forum. If a mod feels that I am in the wrong, then please move this to somewhere that makes more sense.
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In the mean time. Fine... then lets talk wrappers.
I have not had much luck with the latest auto apktool. But the 2.x variants seem to do quite well. Xultimate seems to work fairly well as well.
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Yes, I wrote that post. As I mentioned, this thread is kind of borderline. (While it's not noted on my title, I am a moderator of this section.) If you'd like to debate the finer points of the guidelines, I'd be happy to do so in PM's.
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I'd prefer if we didn't. I don't see any issue with discussion of tools and how they relate to the NoteII (or even the exynos4 platform in general), but when you get into wrappers for those tools, things can get a bit far off focus, and solving the platform/device specific issues would have to be done at the base tool level, not the wrapper level. There are also, of course, threads in other sections for specific tools and even wrappers...
(Hopefully, the next paragraph will keep this on-topic AND show what I'm trying to get at.)
To that end, I HAVE been able to properly decompile most of the NoteII apk's I've tried with apktool. In that case, I wasn't able to to use an older version of apktool, and had to find one that was reengineered to work with ICS firmware. (So, for example, if a wrapper used an older version...) Updating the JDK can also solve some issues. Here's a link to the version of apktool I ended up using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23886280&postcount=1
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lickarock said:
The rules for this sub forum state that this section can be used for discussion of any kind of development. Themeing and modding pre existing roms may not be high level stuff, like porting cm or having issues with a custom kernel... but it is still development. That's why modded roms get posted in the development forum. If a mod feels that I am in the wrong, then please move this to somewhere that makes more sense.
In the mean time. Fine... then lets talk wrappers.
I have not had much luck with the latest auto apktool. But the 2.x variants seem to do quite well. Xultimate seems to work fairly well as well.
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No offense, but please don't talk like Samsung does.
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To that end, I HAVE been able to properly decompile most of the NoteII apk's I've tried with apktool. In that case, I wasn't able to to use an older version of apktool, and had to find one that was reengineered to work with ICS firmware. (So, for example, if a wrapper used an older version...) Updating the JDK can also solve some issues. Here's a link to the version of apktool I ended up using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23886280&postcount=1
Take care
Gary
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Thanks, I was having issues recompiling systemui.
As far as wrappers go, without a "digression" into wrapper UI or other such nonsense, I think it's valid. While most of us know our way around bash, conversation could lead into nice tools like T889 specific git sources or other useful tools.
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