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Reverse Engineering (APK)

This is a page about tools for analyzing APK files, which are application packages for Android, and how to use them.

Tools​

Apktool​

A tool for reverse engineering APKs.

paru -S android-apktool
# or
paru -S android-apktool-git

dex2jar​

A tool to convert Android's dex format to Java's class.

paru -S dex2jar
# or
paru -S dex2jar-git

jd-cli​

CLI tool for Java Decompiler.

paru -S jd-cli

jd-gui​

GUI tool for Java Decompiler.

paru -S jd-gui
# or
paru -S jd-gui-git
# or
paru -S jd-gui-bin

How to Use​

When using Apktool​

The source will be extracted to base/ by executing the command as follows.

apktool d base.apk

When using dex2jar, jd-*​

Convert the APK to a jar file with dex2jar as follows.

dex2jar base.apk

Decompile the generated base-dex2jar.jar. In case of GUI, run jd-gui and select base-dex2jar.jar from File Open. In case of CUI, run jd-cli as follows to extract the file to src/.

jd-cli base-dex2jar.jar -od src