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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073394

Length 166 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Android

Concepts

Reverse Engineering

Author (1):

Abhinav Mishra

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

The reverse engineering of Android applications

Let's now look at the ways to reverse engineer Android applications and study the bits that can be extracted from a compiled application package.

In this section, we will be using a specially built application called SecureStorage. You can download the different builds of the application from the following GitHub links:

The debug build of SecureStorage (https://github.com/0ctac0der/SecureStorage-AndroidApp/releases/download/0.1/app-debug.apk)
The release build of SecureStorage (https://github.com/0ctac0der/SecureStorage-AndroidApp/releases/download/1.0/app-release.apk)

SecureStorage is a simple Android application that can be used to store credit card information on the device. A user will have to sign in with the correct password to be able to access the stored information.

You can install the downloaded application on the Android virtual device to see how it works. Some of the screens look as follows:

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