Yes, Virginia, You can Hack Android Apps

Image by byte via FlickrOne of the glaring limitation of App Inventor is the inability to export source code that can be compiled and expanded using an IDE like Eclipse. It turns out that there are two articles on how to to take an android apk file and decomile them into sorce cofe. I think it might be possible to pull something like this with the apk files generated by App Inventor. I'm going to be testing this theory soon.


Android Reverse Engineering - A Kick Start

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