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So far we've been working with tools that are centered around Android developer and not reverse engineering.
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But now we're going to download our first security tool.
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It's a super popular tool and you can say that is part of the foundation of most Static Analysis Tools
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out there.
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This tool is called apktool so if you just google apktool you will reach this Web site.
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You can install it from github.IO and you can click on install here you can see about the different
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options on how to install it on different operating systems.
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But on Linux you can just use APT-get.
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install apktool.
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Now the downside here is that you'll be getting the last version available in this repository not the
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actual last version.
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So now we have apktool installed on the system.
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So let's just run this on a sample API okay.
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Just google sample APK.
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It doesn't really matter at this point.
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You'll be redirected to some popular APK site OK.
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apkmirror.com is a popular site that allows you to download APKs.
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So for example if there's a specific app you're looking for say flappy birds.
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Just google for example Flappy Birds apk and it will probably lead you to apkmirror. As we mentioned
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in the beginning of this course,
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It's always better to download from the Play Store but from the Play Store you will not be given the
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Apk. So.
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OK we downloaded it and we'll just call this test.
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Let's go to the downloads folder and run apktool on the apk using the 'D' parameter so 'D' for decode
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so we're going to decompile the APK.
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There you go.
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We will have a look at this tool in more detail during the reverse engineering part of the course.