Using a command line interface is a daunting task for many novice developers and themers. So its unfortunate that one of the most popular tools for modding and theming, APKtool, requires such input.

This article is 5 years old. In tech that counts: links may have died and some information aged since. Last weekend, I did a bit of tinkering on my Android smartphone. It was wonderful. I rooted it ...

There are times when you might feel that you need few modifications in our favorite APPs. Who says that there is no way to do that is wrong. There is a way to achieve this by decompiling the APK file ...

If you’ve followed us (or our friends at a couple of Android blogs), you’re probably aware of a little thing we do called APK Teardowns. Basically, we reverse engineer Google’s apps — like Allo, Duo, ...

Last month, we saw a new tool that made it painless to edit the contents of Classes.dex. If you were drawn in by that prospect but couldn't quite get the pieces to work, I think you'll appreciate ...

When decompiling massive Android APKs, the standard procedure is to wait. We wait for tools to eat gigabytes of RAM, fully inflate the artifacts, and spend tens of minutes building heavy global ...

"""Set the current process to high priority.""" return f"File '{file_name}' not found." # Returning a message if the file is not found. # Defining a function called `add_to_path` that takes a ...