Reverse Engineering Android APK

Vicious… yes!

Problem:

You’ve downloaded an APK somewhere and you want to extract images, xml and source. For simplicity we work with appname.apk

Resources:

1. http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
2. http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/
3. http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui
   

Extract images and xml:

1. Launch from command line apktool passing appname.apk as first argument, then
2. appname folder will be created and there you can find xml files and images.

Extract sources:

1. Rename appname.apk in appname.zip, open it with your favorite archive manager, and extract the classes.dex file.
2. In order to avoid path problem, I advice you  to copy the classes.dex file in dex2jar-* folder.
3. Depending your operating system, launch from command line related dex2jar script passing classes.dex as first argument.
4. Then, you’ll find the executable jar file classes_dex2jar.jar in the same directory.
5. Open it with jd-gui and good luck!