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How to decompile apk from Play Store

This is how you can decompile an application you have installed on your phone. My phone is rooted, uses RootBox 3.5 and has BusyBox installed. You may need to have that too if you want to follow my steps completly. Let's start: 1. Install application from market 2. Download apk to computer First you need to locate the apk on the phone. Connect to the phone: adb shell Find the apk in the folder the apk are downloaded to. It is ussualy in '/data/app/' or '/system/app/'. The apk is called as the id from the Play Store, for example 'com.something.someapp.apk'. You can see this in the url from Play. Next you need to pull it to the computer. Once you have located the apk and know it's name exit adb. On your PC execute: adb pull /data/app/com.something.someapp.apk 3. Transform apk to jar I use dex2jar dex2jar-0.0.9.11/d2j-dex2jar.sh com.something.someapp.apk 4. See the code inside the jar I use Java Decompiler Just open the

Mohana- the witch of bring-a-thing

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This week we were asked something to bring a thing for "Bring A Thing", a kind of charity activity at work. I brought a kind of jack in the box witch. Then I was asked to write a  story about it. I thing it got out pretty well and I wanted to share it with you To fully understand the story you should watch South Park , listen to some Manowar and live in Romania. It is still funny if you haven't done any of this, but... Here it is: Once upon a time in the land of far away yet so close you could feel it lived little Timmy. He was a handicapped kid walking around in his wheel chair and singing Abba all day. Timmy’s life was quite boring and ordinary, except when playing tanki online. He was a true champion then. One day his parents wanted to surprise Timmy. So they sent little Timmy to leave with aunt whom he had never seen or heard of, Florgonzola . Oh boy, finally an adventure, thought the child. And finally he arrived. The weather was not so nice. It