Beginners Guide to Reverse Engineering Android Apps

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Demonstrates how to extract an Android APK from a device and inspect its contents using common, simple utilities for reverse engineering. Covers practical, beginner-friendly techniques and tools to take apart Android applications so defenders and analysts can examine app internals.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:08Anatomy of an Android app
3. 2:40Getting the APK from the phone
4. 3:42Downloading the APK from Google Play
5. 4:46Disassembling
6. 7:01Java Decompilers
7. 7:33Decompiling - Android (Dalvik) decompiler
8. 8:06Dalvik Decompilers
9. 8:58Demo - Santoku Linux
10. 12:34Summary

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