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

Technical requirements

Download and set up a virtual machine (at the time of writing this book, Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS is the latest version, and we will be using that) using any virtualization software, such as VirtualBox or VMware. You can download Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Ubuntu desktop) at https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop.

For virtualization, you can use the open source VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) or the commercially available version (as well as the free version) of VMware Workstation Player (https://www.vmware.com/in/products/workstation-player.html) for Windows, or VMware Player Fusion (https://www.vmware.com/in/products/fusion.html) for Mac.

The steps to download and set up a virtual machine are not covered, as it is a straightforward and easy-to-do task. Following any good article/blog post on how to set up an Ubuntu virtual machine should provide all necessary information. Here is a post from the VirtualBox official website about creating a Windows-based virtual...