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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Among the notable tools in the #SDK, they are:
- `emulator`: an Android emulator.
This tools allow to run an emulated Android phone on a computer.
Although very usefull, Android emulator has several limitation.
Although very useful, Android emulator has several limitation.
For once, it cannot emulate another achitecture.
An x86_64 computer cannot emulate an ARM smartphone.
This can be an issue because a majority of smartphone run on ARM processor.
@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ In addition, it can perform additionnal analysis, like computing a call graph or
Jadx#footnote[https://github.com/skylot/jadx] is an application decompiler.
It convert #DEX files to Java source code.
It is not always capable of decompiling all classes of an application, so it cannot be used to recompile a new application, but the code generated can be verry helpfull to reverse an application.
It is not always capable of decompiling all classes of an application, so it cannot be used to recompile a new application, but the code generated can be very helpful to reverse an application.
In addition to decompilling #DEX files, Jadx can also decode Android manifests and application ressources.
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Those tools are quite usefull for manual operations.
Those tools are quite useful for manual operations.
However, considering the complexity of modern Android applications, it might take a lot of work for a reverse engineer to analyse one application.
In the next section, we will see more advance techniques that have been developped to analyse Android applications.