Android App source-code

smartblaa

Hi folks,
Quick question for anyone some-way familiar with Android(from a dev point of view)
Is it possible to dis-assemble or view the source code of an app?
I'm only an Android user, but there's a couple of apps i'd love to delve into to see just how they work.

Cheers
Smartblaa

Atomic Pineapple

No, the best you can get is the class file names, not at the source code.

EasyBoy1974

smartblaa wrote: »

Hi folks,
Quick question for anyone some-way familiar with Android(from a dev point of view)
Is it possible to dis-assemble or view the source code of an app?
I'm only an Android user, but there's a couple of apps i'd love to delve into to see just how they work.

Cheers
Smartblaa

Have you seen dedexer

http://dedexer.sourceforge.net/

claims to disassemble dex files, but I'm not sure how much use it would be

Atomic Pineapple

EasyBoy1974 wrote: »

Have you seen dedexer

http://dedexer.sourceforge.net/

claims to disassemble dex files, but I'm not sure how much use it would be

Does exactly what I said, lets you at the class file names but thats the best you'll get.

draffodx wrote: »

No, the best you can get is the class file names, not at the source code.

Dacelonid

But if dedexer gives you the class files,can you not use JAD to get the java code

Atomic Pineapple

Dacelonid wrote: »

But if dedexer gives you the class files,can you not use JAD to get the java code

I've never tried JAD.

Worth a try.

BeciMester

Android apps don't compile to Java classes but to Dalvik bytecode. It's unique to Android and AFAIK there's no way as of yet to get the source back from a compiled .dex file. There is a tool called baksmali that can show you something that resembles assembly code (at least readable but you really need to know your stuff to make sense of it) but that's it.