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Mobile App Reverse Engineering

You're reading from   Mobile App Reverse Engineering Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073394
Length 166 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhinav Mishra Abhinav Mishra
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Basics of Mobile App Reverse Engineering, Common Tools and Techniques, and Setting up the Environment
2. Chapter 1: Basics of Reverse Engineering – Understanding the Structure of Mobile Apps FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Mobile App Reverse Engineering Environment Using Modern Tools 4. Section 2: Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Methodology and Approach
5. Chapter 3: Reverse Engineering an Android Application 6. Chapter 4: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application 7. Chapter 5: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application (Developed Using Swift) 8. Section 3: Automating Some Parts of the Reverse Engineering Process
9. Chapter 6: Open Source and Commercial Reverse Engineering Tools 10. Chapter 7: Automating the Reverse Engineering Process 11. Chapter 8: Conclusion 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

iOS app development

iOS apps are commonly developed using the Swift or Objective-C languages. Objective-C is a general-purpose programming language with object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Until 2014, Objective-C was the official language for iOS app development.

Apple launched Swift in 2014, a general-purpose, high-level programming language designed to develop apps for Apple's operating systems. Initially, it was a proprietary language, but version 2.2 was made open source under Apache License 2.0.

For iOS application development, Xcode is the official integrated development environment (IDE). Developers also have the option of choosing other IDEs, such as AppCode or Visual Studio Code from Microsoft, but these IDEs also need Xcode underneath to work properly. Xcode includes the required software development kits (SDKs), tools, compilers APIs, and so on. Xcode uses the swiftc compiler for Swift and the clang compiler for Objective-C code.

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