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Re:Introducing Apk2Gold, an easy and comprehensive Android A... by dpeck on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:18PM (#5118035)
You say that as if its a bad thing, smali is a pleasure to read/reverse compared to a lot of other "assembly".

On top of that, using this approach you can edit and rebuild the apk. jd-gui and company are nice, but often times I prefer to just skip ahead to the smali and really know whats going on.

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Re:Introducing Apk2Gold, an easy and comprehensive Android A... by lxdvs on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:38PM (#5118122)
Totally agree with everything you just said! I'm not down on Smali; obviously its incredibly powerful because you can tweak and baksmali. I just personally have no need to modify and rebuild Dalvik.
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