Decompiler wrappers and general modification tools.

[lickarock]

I wanted to open up a little chat here about what decompilers themers and developers are using to crack this bad boy open. I have tried autoapktool, but that one is giving me errors left and right. I will continue to try new ones and post the ones I find work best, but I was curious as to see what other people have found / use / like / dislike.

 

[Droidzone]

Rather off track for a dev discussion.

Esp since the one you posted-auto apktool is a wrapper for apktool.

There are only two tools for decompiling-the original smali/baksmali and apktool. Wrappers arent important. I dont like any of them, and use a collection of my own scripts whenever I have to decompile.

 

[garyd9]

As mentioned, there aren't many actual choices (but several wrappers.)

This is kind of borderline on if it's a dev discussion or not. My opinion is that the OP is somewhat off, but the result might be useful as a reference (and will also fuel my flame thrower if/when someone else posts a similar item without searching.)

I also can't think of a better section for this type of thing (at least until something called "XDA-U" shows up.)

 

[lickarock]

The rules for this sub forum state that this section can be used for discussion of any kind of development. Themeing and modding pre existing roms may not be high level stuff, like porting cm or having issues with a custom kernel... but it is still development. That's why modded roms get posted in the development forum. If a mod feels that I am in the wrong, then please move this to somewhere that makes more sense.

Section Guidelines -- READ THIS FIRST
This area is currently experimental and was set up by the XDA Administrators for development discussion. The idea in this section is for developers (not only recognized developers, but all developers) to have a place for discussion threads to "talk shop."

In the mean time. Fine... then lets talk wrappers.

I have not had much luck with the latest auto apktool. But the 2.x variants seem to do quite well. Xultimate seems to work fairly well as well.

 

[garyd9]

The rules for this sub forum state....

Yes, I wrote that post. As I mentioned, this thread is kind of borderline. (While it's not noted on my title, I am a moderator of this section.) If you'd like to debate the finer points of the guidelines, I'd be happy to do so in PM's.

In the mean time. Fine... then lets talk wrappers.

I'd prefer if we didn't. I don't see any issue with discussion of tools and how they relate to the NoteII (or even the exynos4 platform in general), but when you get into wrappers for those tools, things can get a bit far off focus, and solving the platform/device specific issues would have to be done at the base tool level, not the wrapper level. There are also, of course, threads in other sections for specific tools and even wrappers...

(Hopefully, the next paragraph will keep this on-topic AND show what I'm trying to get at.)

To that end, I HAVE been able to properly decompile most of the NoteII apk's I've tried with apktool. In that case, I wasn't able to to use an older version of apktool, and had to find one that was reengineered to work with ICS firmware. (So, for example, if a wrapper used an older version...) Updating the JDK can also solve some issues. Here's a link to the version of apktool I ended up using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23886280&postcount=1

Take care
Gary

 

[toxicthunder]

The rules for this sub forum state that this section can be used for discussion of any kind of development. Themeing and modding pre existing roms may not be high level stuff, like porting cm or having issues with a custom kernel... but it is still development. That's why modded roms get posted in the development forum. If a mod feels that I am in the wrong, then please move this to somewhere that makes more sense.



In the mean time. Fine... then lets talk wrappers.

I have not had much luck with the latest auto apktool. But the 2.x variants seem to do quite well. Xultimate seems to work fairly well as well.

No offense, but please don't talk like Samsung does.

 

[konceptz]

To that end, I HAVE been able to properly decompile most of the NoteII apk's I've tried with apktool. In that case, I wasn't able to to use an older version of apktool, and had to find one that was reengineered to work with ICS firmware. (So, for example, if a wrapper used an older version...) Updating the JDK can also solve some issues. Here's a link to the version of apktool I ended up using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23886280&postcount=1

Take care
Gary

Thanks, I was having issues recompiling systemui.

As far as wrappers go, without a "digression" into wrapper UI or other such nonsense, I think it's valid. While most of us know our way around bash, conversation could lead into nice tools like T889 specific git sources or other useful tools.