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Comment on smali/baksmali used for great evil by jf

jf — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:11:27 +0000

I agree. I don’t have anything against your work/article. In fact, I think it is awesome that my tools are being used for this type of security research. But since the subject came up, I wanted to make sure my stance on the whole piracy/copyright infringement thing was clear.

Thanks for the comment!

Comment on smali/baksmali used for great evil by Adam

Adam — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:46:14 +0000

How dare you crack CoPilot! YOU LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

Comment on smali/baksmali used for great evil by Justin Case

Justin Case — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:45:00 +0000

I hope my research spurs developers to not rely just on Google for copy protection, and to think for themselves. I truly started my research as an intellectual quest, wanting to learn more about copy protection, and smali.

Thank you for all you have provided the Android community, including baksmali/smali.

Comment on smali/baksmali used for great evil by Brut.all

Brut.all — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:39:43 +0000

Same here.

Some time ago I was talking with people, who were saying that “It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. (…)” sentence on the main page of apktool is ridiculous and funny, cause it’s obvious apktool was created for piracy. There were other people, who were giving examples of good usage of this tool, but first group said these are all lies, cause everybody know, what is the main, real purpose of apktool. I think if some people don’t have at least a little of good will in their hearts, then they can’t even imagine someone else is doing something for good purposes. It’s unbelievable for them.

And yeah, when I was reading LVL documentation for the first time, I was surprised because it was obvious to me, that it’s really easy to bypass it. And the fact that developers have to include LVL library to their app makes possible to even create some fully automatic patcher tool. So this is weird to me that Google has created LVL, but you are right: this protection makes impossible to pull apk from one device and install it on another just like that. Apk must be cracked, so stealing is a little harder if app is protected by LVL.

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by Brett

Brett — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:38:50 +0000

Works great…I’m looking forward to learning about and using the tools! Hopefully those changes don’t break compilation on Java 1.6…@Override is mentioned as the reason that Google is not supporting Java 1.6 on Android OS and the reason I had to downgrade to Java 1.5.

Thanks,
Brett

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by jf

jf — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:29:24 +0000

It “should” work. If it doesn’t, it’s a bug. Can you please create an issue at http://code.google.com/p/smali/issues/list and provide more details?

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by jf

jf — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:28:12 +0000

Fixed. http://code.google.com/p/smali/source/detail?r=786 Thanks!

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by Peethat

Peethat — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:50:57 +0000

Does this work on the APKs generated by googles APP inventor?

I just tried apktool (which seems to use smali) and that spits out a lot of errors about syntax errors when trying to compile what it just decompiled.

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by Brett

Brett — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:09:09 +0000

Hi JF,

You put out the highest quality Open Source Android stuff I’ve come across and I wish I could give you the solution but I am not that experienced with Java. When I try to compile Smali I get the following errors:

VisitorImpl.java:[22,9] method does not override a method from its superclass
VisitorImpl.java:[27,9] method does not override a method from its superclass
RadixTreeImpl.java:[417,9] method does not override a method from its superclass

I’m running *nix with Java 1.5…I’ll see what I can do to find a solution.

Brett

Comment on More smali/baksmali bugfixes by jf

jf — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:39:06 +0000

Glad you find it useful!