Decompile smali files on an APK

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I downloaded APK Manager that lets me unpack APK files   But it only unpacks it and doesn t decompile the  smali file to  java   Is it possible to decompile the  smali to  java

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There is a new cross plateform  java  and open source tool  that enable you to do that  just checkout https   bytecodeviewer com               EDIT  As of April 2017  there is a new open source tool developed by google  that is meant to do just what we have been looking for    https   github com google android-classyshark

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For getting the practical view of converting  apk file into  java files just check out https   www youtube com watch v -AX4NYE-9V8 video   you will get more benefited and understand clearly  It clearly demonstrates the steps you required if you are using mac OS   The basic requirement for getting this done  1  http   code google com p dex2jar  2  http   jd benow ca

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My recommendation is Virtuous Ten Studio  The tool is free but they suggest a donation  It combines all the necessary steps  unpacking APK  baksmaliing  decompiling  etc   into one easy-to-use UI-based import process  Within five minutes you should have Java source code  less than it takes to figure out the command line options of one of the above mentioned tools   Decompiling smali to Java is an inexact process  especially if the smali artifacts went through an obfuscator  You can find several decompilers on the web but only some of them are still maintained  Some will give you better decompiled code than others  Read  better  as in  more understandable  than others  Don t expect that the reverse-engineered Java code will compile out of the box  Virtuous Ten Studio comes with multiple free Java decompilers built-in so you can easily try out different decompilers  the  Generate Java source  step  to see which one gives you the best results  saving you the time to find those decompilers yourself and figure out how to use them  Amongst them is CFR  which is one of the few free and still maintained decompilers   As output you receive  amongst other things  a folder structure that contains all the decompiled Java source code  You can then import this into IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse for further editing  analysis  e g  Go to definition  Find usages   etc

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I second that   Dex2jar will generate a WORKING jar  which you can add as your project source  with the xmls you got from apktool   However  JDGUI generates  java files which have  more often than not  errors   It has got something to do with code obfuscation I guess

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No  APK Manager decompiles the  dex file into  smali and binary  xml to human readable xml    The sequence  based on APK Manager 4 9  is 22 to select the package  and then 9 to decompile it  If you press 1 instead of 9  then you will just unpack it  useful only if you want to exchange  png images     There is no tool available to decompile back to  java files and most probably it won t be any  There is an alternative  which is using dex2jar to transform the dex file in to a  class file  and then use a jar decompiler  such as the free jd-gui  to plain text java  The process is far from optimal  though  and it won t generate working code  but it s decent enough to be able to read it   dex2jar  https   github com pxb1988 dex2jar  jd-gui  http   jd benow ca   Edit  I knew there was somewhere here in SO a question with very similar answers    decompiling DEX into Java sourcecode

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dex2jar helps to decompile your apk but not 100   You will have some problems with  smali files  Dex2jar cannot convert it to java  I know one application that can decompile your apk source files and no problems with  smali files  Here is a link http   www hensence com en smali2java

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