Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API

Re:Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API by xkcd-sucks on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:33AM (#23254829)

For me, the fastest way involves using apktool to decompile it, then simply reading the API code. Or insert a log statement, recompile, run on phone w adb log - requires minimal Android code fluency

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Re:Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API by Polylactic_acid on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:43AM (#23254866)

Does this usually work? I just unzipped an apk once and saw it was all javascript but I assumed other apps would be minified.

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Re:Reverse Engineered Nintendo Switch App REST API by xkcd-sucks on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:01PM (#23331212)

Java/Android is basically gibberish to me as is - Maybe it is obfuscated sometimes. But strings themselves (API endpoints) have to be present some way or another.

There is also something called "smali" which is an intermediate representation - You can edit it following something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31101740/method-to-add-a....

Finally, there are occasionally native ARM libs included in the jar - You can get these with tool "retdec" or just run strings on it to find interesting stuff

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