Use the command line tool dexdump from the Android-SDK. It’s in $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/<some_version>/dexdump. It prints a lot more info than you probably want. I didn’t find a way to make dexdump less verbose, but dexdump classes.dex | grep ‘Class descriptor’ should work.
When you create an application code, the apk file contains a .dex file, which contains binary Dalvik bytecode. This is the format that the platform actually understands. However, it’s not easy to read or modify binary code, so there are tools out there to convert to and from a human readable representation. The most common … Read more
Try disabling instant run, take a look here and then edit your main dex file, check out this resource on the android developer site to ensure you have the correct classes enabled in your main dex file
You need to also exclude stax-API. implementation(‘org.simpleframework:simple-xml:2.7.+’){ exclude module: ‘stax’ exclude module: ‘stax-api’ exclude module: ‘xpp3’ }
The solution didn’t help me because I was using jetpack version ie androidx. libraries. Followed official doc. And I had to change name to androidx….Multidex. <application android:name=”androidx.multidex.MultiDexApplication” > … </application> Hope It helps other people looking for adding multidex with jetpack.
Note: All of the following instructions apply universally (aka to all OSes) unless otherwise specified. Prerequsites You will need: A working Java installation A working terminal/command prompt A computer An APK file Steps Step 1: Changing the file extension of the APK file Change the file extension of the .apk file by either adding a … Read more
It looks like Google has finally implementing a workaround/fix for surpassing the 65K method limit of dex files. About the 65K Reference Limit Android application (APK) files contain executable bytecode files in the form of Dalvik Executable (DEX) files, which contain the compiled code used to run your app. The Dalvik Executable specification limits the … Read more
First, an apk file is just a modified jar file. So the real question is can they decompile the dex files inside. The answer is sort of. There are already disassemblers, such as dedexer and smali. You can expect these to only get better, and theoretically it should eventually be possible to decompile to actual … Read more
In root build.gradle file do something like: dependencies { // … implementation ‘androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1’ } android { defaultConfig { // … multiDexEnabled true } } More details here: Error:Cannot fit requested classes in a single dex file.Try supplying a main-dex list. # methods: 72477 > 65536
It’s easy Get these tools: dex2jar to translate dex files to jar files jd-gui to view the java files in the jar The source code is quite readable as dex2jar makes some optimizations. Procedure: And here’s the procedure on how to decompile: Step 1: Convert classes.dex in test_apk-debug.apk to test_apk-debug_dex2jar.jar d2j-dex2jar.sh -f -o output_jar.jar apk_to_decompile.apk … Read more