It is a tool for reengineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications; it makes possible to debug smali code step by step. Also it makes working with app easier because of project-like files structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc.

It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom platforms and other GOOD purposes. Just try to be fair with authors of an app, that you use and probably like.

Features:

• decoding resources to nearly original form
• smali debugging: SmaliDebugging
• helping with some repetitive tasks

See this document for information: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/ See this document for information regarding smali: http://code.google.com/p/smali/ See this for the XDA Topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28366939

Original Author: brut.all
Smali/Baksmali: JesusFreke
Updated by: iBotPeaches (@iBotPeaches)

Last Update: February 2nd, 2013

GOOGLE PAGE: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/

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