How could I view packaged APK files in Eclipse unencrypted?

Question

I am newer to android development. I have a couple apps I've made with appinventor. I would like to be able to take a completed and packaged .apk that is saved on my computer that was made with appinventor and open to edit it in eclipse. Mainly I want to see how a working app Ive made is actually written. This is for my own educational purposes only, no pirating or other illegal uses.

Answer 1

generally it is not possible to convert an App Inventor project into Java. However there are projects which have this goal, see the App Inventor-Java translation project and the Java Bridge project.

Answer 2

Check the android-apktool. I have no experience with the tool and as I see it will not show you the sources but it seems to be the best way to 'unpack' apk files.

Answer 3

I doubt this is possible, how are you going to bring the dex code back to your java code, even then, AppInventor makes for horrible APKs, two apps that do the exact same thing will differ greatly in size if made with the SDK vs AppInventor.

You should just read a couple of books, or search for information online, instead of trying to unpack an APK.

Answer 4

It's absolutely possible using dex2jar which involves a little time to set up and run but it give you a .jar that you can open with a java decompiler. As for getting the source files into eclipse, there are probably some decompilers that do this but probably cost money. You can use the one listed to copy/paste the code out but it will not provide you with an eclipse project.