apk to dex conversion

Question

How to convert .apk files to .dex files?

Please help.

Solution 1

• Rename the .apk to .zip
• Extract the files from the zip
• In the extracted files, you will get your desired dex file

Why would you need the dex file though? Its byte code file for dalvik VM.

Solution 2

An APK is actually a ZIP file. So you can decompress it with:

unzip app.apk

The DEX file is in the decompressed folder.

From your question I think now you are done. Decompiling the DEX file is another story.

Solution 3

Here you can find a dissambler: http://code.google.com/p/smali/ And in this two post you can get more information about the process: http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-decompile-dex-file-on-android_28.html http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com/2009/01/disassembling-dex-files.html

Comments

[Sarwar Erfan]

Your links are about how to decompile dex files. The question was how to get the dex, not how to decompile the dex to smil

[CoDe]

any one have better idea how to get dex files from apk.

[Muni Mishra]

hi Aitor i just extracted setting.apk.zip(Setting app) in android3.2 and i didn't got classes.dex ,could any one can help me what is the problem ??