smali/baksmali used for great evil
August 27, 2010I wanted to take a moment to respond to the recent buzz about using smali/baksmali to break the new Google licensing framework for the Android market.
Yes, I would like some frozen yogurt with my baksmali please
June 13, 2010smali/baksmali v1.2.3 is out, and now includes the ability to deodex odex files from froyo.
YABBFR
April 3, 2010Yet Another Baksmali Bugfix Release. v1.2.2 is out for your disassembling pleasure.
smali/baksmali v1.2.1 bugfix release
March 6, 2010I’ve released v1.2.1, which is mostly a bugfix release to v1.2. There are a few performance improvements and enhancements in there as well.
smali/baksmali v1.2 released
February 22, 2010After lots of hard work over the last month or two, smali/baksmali 1.2 is out!
The major new functionality in this release is that baksmali now supports deodexing without the help of deodexerant! It also has a new “register info” feature, to show the register types in the disassembly, and numerous minor fixes/changes/enhancements/tweaks/(and probably bugs)
Have a very smali Christmas!
December 25, 2009As my Christmas present to everyone, I present smali/baksmali v1.1
Nook updates
December 23, 2009Now that the nook softroot is out, I’d like to take a moment to explain the structure of the updates, the nook bootup process in general, and how the softroot came about.
smali/baksmali v1.0
November 8, 2009It’s 1.0. Yep, sure is. Go get it here.
Why should you get the new version you ask? Well, it’s been spiffified, of course. The new spiffiness includes:
- The label syntax has changed from “label:” to “:label”. This makes the lexer happy. And a happy lexer uses less memory and runs faster. Yay for happy lexers
- Added a -r/–rewrite-labels option for smali, which will rewrite the smali files you give it, changing any labels in the old format to the new format.
- deodexerant now opens the odex files as read-only, so you can run deodexerant directly on the odex files in /system, without having to remount, or copy them to /data.
- You can give baksmali an apk file now, so you don’t have to manually extract out the classes.dex file
And one final note: deodexerant will *not* work on 2.0 devices. Once the 2.0 source is released, I should be able to build a new deodexerant binary that will work on 2.0.
Update: There are now also wrapper scripts available for smali/baksmali, so you can call “baksmali …” instead of “java -jar baksmali.jar …”
Update 2: Now that the Eclair source is out, I’ve added a new build of deodexerant to the downloads page that works with 2.0
slay those pesky odex files!
September 10, 2009odex files getting you down? Now you can do something about them!