[IDE][2.4.18.9530 (OTA)] Virtuous Ten Studio - Advanced Reverse Engineering Solution

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Virtuous Ten Studio (VTS)

Virtuous Ten Studio (VTS) is the ultimate solution for the modification of android applications.
This program allows you to manage entire Android projects within an easy to use and familiar environment.

The intended group of users covers anyone from a themer over ROM devs up to the smali gods known for their awesome mods of existing apks.
The modifcation of smali code is one of the biggest features in VTS. You can easily decompile, edit and recompile any apk or jar file.
However, the application is not limited to smali files. You can edit almost any file found inside an apk or jar.

Virtuous Ten Studio is also the official successor to the highly important M10Tools released last year by the Virtuous Team.
You can easily edit any m10 file from Sense apps in order to resize or change them.

Additionally VTS brings support for un- and repacking of boot images (boot.img), a job that previously required a cygwin installation with the dsixda kitchen.
Since VTS' own implementation is a native windows solution, which means you don't need dsixda or cygwin anymore.

VTS has been designed to run on Windows, has been in development for nearly two years and has gone through many stages of testing.


Today VTS is a highly respected full blown Android IDE (Integrated Develoment Environment) suited for all your reverse engineering tasks.

Screenshots

XDA Portal posts

Virtuous Ten Studio Becomes Self-Aware, Decompiles Skynet
Large Update to Virtuous Ten Studio Adds Support for Stubborn Sense Files
App Editing Software Virtuous Ten Studio Releases Public Beta

Main Features

This is only a short summary of all features, a full list of features can be found here.

• Never before seen UI
  • Fully featured IDE
  • Seamless integration of useful third party tools
    
    • ApkTool
    • Smali/Baksmali
    • ADB
    • Zipalign
    • Sign
    • dex2jar
    • WinMerge
    • Remote Theme Injector (RTI)
    • many more
    
    
  • Work with your apks just like having real java code
  • Support for apks and framework jars
  • Easily keep track of multiple apks/jars with the Solution Explorer
  • Manage big projects with ease
  
  
• Edit smali code like never before
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Jumping to smali references (method calls, fields, classes, gotos)
  • Help files on almost every smali command and topic
  • Connection between smali code and public.xml to expose hex references
  • Have a helpful look at the java source of any smali file if needed
  • Paste often used smali snippets right from the editor
  
  
• Enhanced XML workflow
  • Easy navigation in XML documents
  • Follow XML resource paths and jump to the source file with a simple click
  • Previews of color codes, images and string resources directly in the xml file
  
  
• Edit M10 files with great usability
  • Support for all Sense versions (3.0, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, 4.5)
  • Work with m10 files either with the dedicated M10-Project or via the combined APK-Project
  • Decompile m10 images of all Sense versions to create HTC Sense themes
  • Quickly analyze the contents with the M10-Structure viewer
  • Validate your m10 changes with the syntax checker
  • Unimportant m10 parts are greyed out or completely hidden
  
  
• Unpack and repack boot images (boot.img)
  • Easily edit any content of your boot.img
  • Dedicated syntax highlighting for *.rc and *.prop files
  • Advanced support for files modes and symlinks
  • Native implementation, no need for cygwin or the dsixda kitchen
  
  
• Communicate with your device with yet to be seen ease
  • Tight integration of most ADB commands
  • Push apks or jars easily to any place on your device
  • Remote import files to edit them with VTS
  • Debug your device with the integrated Logcat-Viewer
  
  
• Enhance your workflow with useful additions
  • Easily create backups of your projects
  • Dedicated compare interface for easy comparision of files, folders or projects
  
  
• Hundreds of other awesome features (seriously, you really have to see and try it yourself)

User feedback

 

Changelog & News

You can find a regularly updated changelog (which also includes features of upcoming versions) right here.

Dunc001 created a set of articles covering the most important new features. Here's the list so far:
What's new in 2.3.27
What's new in 2.2.11
What's new in 2.1.19

Bugs & Issues

If you are about to make a new post in this thread asking for help because you got an issue, please make sure to check the FAQs here first.
If you still need help, please include all the required information listed under the "Something else went wrong" section.
I can't help you if you forget to provide these information.

If you got any issues feel free to ask here while adhering to the guidelines above.

I am also usually available on IRC, channel #vts-dev on Freenode. If I don't immediately answer you, stick around for a while and make sure to mention my name so I get a notification.

Guides and tutorials

My team and I spent a lot of time on writing detailed and comprehensive guides and tutorials about VTS.
They cover a wide range of topics, from a total beginner level up to complex topics like creating your own HTC Sense skins.

You can find the guides on my website:

• Getting started
• Smali
• XML
• M10
• Other stuff

Need help with M10 mods? Have a look at this thread. (no requests please)

Download and more information

The downloads, tutorials and many more resources can be found on the dedicated VTS website

http://www.virtuous-ten-studio.com/

FAQ

How to properly install framework apks and use tags

 

ApkTool (and therefore VTS) needs framework apks to properly de- & recompile Android resources.
Framework tags are used to differentiate between multiple sets of framework apks.
You are usually going to have one set (ie. multiple apks) per device and base/rom version.
When installing frameworks it's very important to install all frameworks from the same device/rom with the same tag.

Have a look at this tutorial to learn more about installing frameworks with VTS.

How to manually edit VTS settings

 

VTS stores its settings easily accessible in XML files. They are stored in a folder (normally) located here:
C:\Users\<your user>\Documents\Virtuous Ten Studio\Settings\

You can easily open and edit these settings files, just make sure VTS is closed before doing so.
Note: Some settings only exist after VTS used them for the first time.

VTS can't find the Java binary

 

Make sure to add the location of your Java.exe to your PATH variable and reboot after doing so.
VTS should be able to find your java binary now.

If it still doesn't work, you can manually specify the java path in the VTS settings.

Something else went wrong and I need help

 

Editing apks and other Android related files can be a highly complex task.
There are many possible error sources. If something goes wrong nobody can help you unless you provide some important things: (if applicable)

1. The VTS logs. Without these it's pretty impossible to troubleshoot problems that occured while using VTS.
   Have a look at this tutorial, it explains you how to use the Log Viewer.
   Make sure all checkboxes on top are checked and copy all the log text from the textbox.
   When asking for help, make sure to include all the text in [CODE]<log text>[/CODE] tags.
   
   
2. A logcat of your device, the packagename (if applicable) and filename of the file you are working on.
   If something goes wrong or doesn't work on the device you are working with, it's absolutely required to get a logcat before asking for help.
   You can use the Logcat viewer of VTS to get a copy of the so called Logcat. It's the internal log of your device and usually helps revealing and solving all kinds of problems occuring on the device.
   As with the VTS logs, please include the Logcat in [CODE]<logcat text>[/CODE] tags.
   
   
3. Your Operating System version (eg. Windows 8, Windows Vista etc)
   
   
4. General information:
   • Can you reproduce the issue?
   • Did you try to restart your computer/your device first?

Feel free to propose me any new entries for this post

Looks interesting!
I need to try this out soon

Thanks!

Awesome! Thanks for all the hard work, DB! looking forward to playing with this!

Definitely going to check this out. Glad its finally out of development, thanks and congrats!!

Originally Posted by Bazar617

Definitely going to check this out. Glad its finally out of development, thanks and congrats!!

Oh this baby won't leave development soon I just hope everything will work

Originally Posted by Diamondback

Oh this baby won't leave development soon I just hope everything will work

Amazing job, mate!!!

Awesome to see thanks for this

installing right now.

looks great. been subscribed to the preview topic waiting for this day

setup wants to download aditional files such as .net framework 4.

cant those be included in a more complete / advanced setup?