3X: Android decompilation support [WIP]

[Col-E]

What's new

• Decompilation support for dex classes

Considerations

There is a lot of refactoring of the UI classes inside this. So far, the implementation idea is to map DexLib --> JadX so we can use JadX to decompile dex classes. JadX is mostly designed with Android Dalvik in mind, so the mapping process is simpler than a complete mapping from Dalvik to Java. However, if we are putting in the effort for this mapping I have some questions:

• Should we put in an extra mile to do a complete DexLib -> Java so any decompiler can be used?

  • What are our options for this that already exist?
    • Dex2Jar - designed as a CLI tool, the code behind it is messy
    • Dalvikgate - abandoned
  • Would it be too complex to make our own mapper?

[metzger100]

Dex2Jar is abandoned as well but ThexXTURBOXx has an active Repo. https://github.com/ThexXTURBOXx/dex2jar Maybe you could open an Issue and ask for his help.

[Col-E]

Closing, an alternative approach using https://github.com/Col-E/dex-translator is in place on a separate branch