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.

XDA-Developers does not condone using APKTool for any kind of application piracy. There are many reasons to use APKTool, but modifying an application for piracy purposes should not be one of them. The ...

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 ...

A CLI that wraps apktool and jadx into a single decompile pipeline, then parses the result into a readable summary: package info, permissions flagged by risk, exported components, and an optional ...

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, ...