Decompile Android apk

Example apk

• Viu TV app for Android

Overview

1. Convert *.dex to *.jar using dex2jar

2. using JD-GUI to view the source code

Using dex2jar

1. Download dex2jar

2. Unzip dex2jar-2.0.zip to ~/bin/dex2jar-2.0/ or other directory

3. Make the script executable

$ cd ~/bin/dex2jar-2.0/
$ chmod +x *.sh

4. Convert the apk into jar file using the convert script

$ sh ~/bin/dex2jar-2.0/d2j-dex2jar.sh com.hktve.viutv-20160409.apk

A jar file com.hktve.viutv-20160409-dex2jar.jar is then created

Open the jar file using JD-GUI

Result:

JD-GUI Result

References

• decompiling DEX into Java sourcecode | StackOverflow