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I 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.

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1.2.4 is out, with a number of bugfixes

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smali/baksmali v1.2.3 is out, and now includes the ability to deodex odex files from froyo.

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Yet Another Baksmali Bugfix Release. v1.2.2 is out for your disassembling pleasure.

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I’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.

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After 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)

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As my Christmas present to everyone, I present smali/baksmali v1.1

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Now 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.

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It’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

odex files getting you down? Now you can do something about them!

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