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Re:ReVanced by og_pixel on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:28PM (#30804132)
I don't know much about the topic so forgive my ignorance, but aren't Android apps written in Java/JVM language? Meaning decompilation should be really straightforward, I remember IntelliJ having a decompiler, many times I would accidental open a `class` file and it would suggest decompilation. This kind of code was still hard to read, but it was Java, not bytecode.
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Re:ReVanced by daveloyall on Friday March 25, 2022 @02:34PM (#30805614)
It's all relative, I'm sure, and I don't have any experience with decompilers other than this one: https://www.benf.org/other/cfr/, but, if you look at the change log there you will see that "really straightforward" is an unfortunately optimistic outlook. :)
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Re:ReVanced by kaba0 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @06:17PM (#30815877)
Nah, java can be decompiled really really well. To the point that basically every app uses obfuscation to make the resulting code harder to comprehend.
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Re:ReVanced by michaelmior on Friday March 25, 2022 @02:48PM (#30805744)
Generally it's not too hard to decompile. But whether the code is any way readable or easy to modify is another question.
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Re:ReVanced by bradleykingz on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:06PM (#30805945)
Android has ProGuard, which makes decompilation harder, but certainly not impossible if one is motivated enough.
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Re:ReVanced by UncleMeat on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:25PM (#30807934)
ProGuard does basic name minification and some code movement. It is easy to read proguarded bytecode if you have a bit of experience.
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