Morally, it's basically decompiling, you can fiddle with the bytecode too, decompiling is just the next step..
As for your second question: this forum isn't monitored by the Google play people. However, you might get lucky and have someone from the dev team forward it along. The best I've heard is people getting responses from Google's "report an app" button. Kris On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:55 PM, jeka <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't need to decompile anything to achieve what I'm describing. Your > APK can have another APK as a "payload" and simply execute its own activity > before starting the one from another APK. I won't get into details simply > because I don't want to give anybody the wrong ideas, but it is easy to do. > > But that is besides the point. The point here is this: now that I know this > is being done with my app, who, if anybody at Google can take the knockoff > down? At best, it is stealing from me. At worst, it is planting Trojans... > > > > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 12:36:14 PM UTC-5, Nobu Games wrote: >> >> I noticed that Proguard is able to produce obfuscated code which makes >> Java Decompiler crash. >> It's a reasonable step to obfuscate any app (also free ones) in order to >> make it harder to figure out where to apply these changes or how to crack >> them. >> >> More advanced protection steps are described here. To sum it up: on top of >> code-obfuscation you need to add hidden self-integrity checks to your app >> that try to validate the package signature. >> >> >> On Monday, January 28, 2013 11:27:00 AM UTC-6, Johan Appelgren wrote: >>> >>> Just decompile, add ad activity, change manifest and recompile. Haven't >>> tried but can probably be automated for most apps. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
