Disassembling a program?

[chuckles1066]

Hello,

Apologies if this is a stupid question.

Back in the day (we're talking 1982 and the days of gthe Sinclair Spectrum), you used to be able to buy what was called a "disassembler".

You loaded it and then loaded the program in question and you had the ability to effectively reverse engineer the code. I used it to successfully prove that a commercial backgammon program was manipulating the dice rolls.

Same scenario today; there's a backgammon program that's cheating like nobody's business, the developer (naturally enough) is acting purer than an angel's fart so I need to rip his source code apart and point out to him the error of his ways. Repent or I'll name and shame.

So can you do that sort of thing with an Android app.

Thanks for reading and for any responses.

 

[codesplice]

You can use Apktool (https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/) for peeking inside some Android applications, though some developers take steps to limit the effectiveness of such tools.