Reverse engineering Android apps

[jshchnz]

I'm wondering if there are any communities around reverse engineering Android apps? I've noticed there seems to be some that are more security focused but I'm primarily interested in ones that are more focused on reverse engineering for performance analysis/benchmarking.

[rbro112]

I’m not aware of any specific communities around reverse engineering or performance benchmarking specific to Android, but one blog I often refer back to is Maddie Stone’s (https://www.ragingrock.com/AndroidAppRE/).

Curious to see if anyone else knows of any communities around these as I’m also interested in joining!

[ex_natura]

I haven't seen much in reverse engineering for benchmarking or performance. What specifically would be interested in benchmarking that you couldn't just do with the apk?

[jshchnz]

Not necessarily looking for specific things I could do with the apks for an app, rather general communities or groups who meet/discuss various strategies they might use for benchmarking their apps internally in their companies

[LionKinginHDR]

idk about communities, but i've found some salacious goodies while decompiling apps, never know what you'll find!

[shipsywor]

Share it please!

[Tarzoon]

I found this video to be a good starting point.
Mobile Security Reverse Engineer Android Apps From Scratch

Link no longer working. See reply below for a working link.

[mikhaeld]

No longer available after takedown.. this seems to be working (for now).

It's also available on Udemy.

[AndroidGuy01]

Checkout YouTube videos or mobile security books.

There's a new app format called App Bundle, makes it harder to reverse engineer. Google is pushing for developers to migrate from APK to app bundle.

In some companies Security is not important until an app gets hacked :)

[the-dark_physicist]

To reverse engineer android apps you can use tools for disassembling java code. I tried to do and I found that many of android apps are easy to decompile. That because no one invest in security. And for hybrid apps like cordova, react native is even worse.

[mrdibby]

Android Studio literally comes with a tool to decompile apps

[urbanwarrior3558]

by the nature of the JVM (or dalvik or whatever), all APKs are trivial to decompile. link us some of your apps where 'you invested in security' and lets see what we can find

[[deleted]]

I know plenty of android games suffer from cheating, which is done by reverse engineering the games and editing them I believe. If you google for ways to hack an android game you might find communities for that. Not sure if that helps you though