You can use jadx as a command line utility.

Pretty cool isn't ? You can save all the code within a folder if you click in the top menu, File and Save all. In this example we are going to use the APK of Our Code Editor Premium, whose native code is based in Cordova and the app itself with Javascript (the source code is inside Resources/assets/www): Once you've selected the file, jadx will decompile it and will provide an explorer IDE-style (tree style view) in the left side of the application that list all the Java packages and files of the APK. As first you will get a window that allows you to choose the APK file that you want to decompile: Jadx is generally used with a graphical user interface, start the jadx-gui.bat file (inside the jadx-folder/bin folder) with administrator rights. You can use jadx from the command line or from an user graphical interface: With GUI Of our interest is the bin folder that contains the bat files that allow us to use jadx either with the command line or the graphic user interface (GUI):Įxecute the bat files with administrator rights, otherwise in some PCs jadx won't even start. Extract zip contentĮxtract the content of the downloaded zip files into a folder of your preference, the content of the zip will be something like: The download of the binaries from any of the previous sources, should be a zip file.

You can download the zip with the binaries of jadx from SourceForge here. The source code is available on Github and the binaries are available to download in the releases window here.

This application is public and licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. To get started with the decompilation of an APK file with jadx, you will need the binaries of this application that you can download through different sources namely Github and SourceForge: Github releases In no case shall we (Our Code World) or the developer of this application be liable for direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages resulting from the use of this application or from the application packages (APKs) decompiled with it.

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