Daniele Altomare

Android Reverse Engineering 101 – Part 2

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 15, 2015 android4 Comments

In the first article of this series I have explained the format of APK and AAR bundles. As already mentioned, applications available on Google Play Store (or more generally any application installed on a device) are packaged in a file with the APK extension. In this second part, I will show …

adb tidbits

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 12, 2015 androidLeave a comment

This is a short post with few useful tips you may use while working with adb. If you are an experienced Android developer probably you had to issue these commands several times. 1 – Kill the server Sometimes it can happen that your device is not listed by adb anymore …

Android Reverse Engineering 101 – Part 1

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 11, 2015 android7 Comments

This is the first in a series of articles about reverse engineering Android applications. In this series I will cover the anatomy of the APK and AAR package formats and few tools commonly used to reverse engineering or inspecting applications: aapt, dex2jar, apktool and Androguard. Part 1 – APK and AAR format …

Translucent Activity window background is displayed as black

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 8, 2015 androidLeave a comment

Update: the issue has been closed and the fix will be available in future Android releases (specific version not provided). This is an issue I had to deal with while I was working on one of our applications at Sysmosoft. The use case is not so common, but it’s not …

Google Now – Time at home funny issue

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 8, 2015 android2 Comments

Update: the issue has been closed and the fix will be available in a future release (specific version not provided). Last week I have noticed a funny issue on Google Now v5.5.29.19.arm: I was in London for the Droidcon, so in a different timezone (I live in Switzerland). Very kindly, Google Now decided …

Android Support Library 23.1.0 Proguard regression

daniele.altomare@gmail.com November 8, 2015 androidLeave a comment

Update: with the release of the Support Library 23.1.1 the issue has been fixed. You can update to that version and remove the rule in your ProGuard configuration file. If you are using the Android Support Library, specifically the support-design, and the NavigationDrawer , you could face a ProGuard issue while …