Extract APK and decompile into Java source code

By | July 30, 2012

Decompiling apk to Dex format

1. Download Dex2Jar (Android runs applications which are in Dalvik Executable (.dex) format).
2. Run the command to convert apk to jar

dex2jar targetapp.apk file(./dex2jar targetapp.apk on terminal)

Viewing/Decompiling the Jar files to Java

1. Open ‘targetapp.apk.dex2jar.jar’ with jd-gui
2. File > Save All Sources to sava the class files in jar to java files.

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