Dedexer got competition! Not one but immediately two - smali and baksmali is a DEX assembler/disassembler pair. The programs are brand new and - like Dedexer - they are also based on a Jasmin-like format. I tried them very shortly, the disassembler - baksmali - worked correctly and indeed produced an output similar to dedexer but I could not compile the output of baksmali back to DEX format with the assembler - smali. The disassembler does not handle ODEX files either.
The initiative is indeed valuable, however, and I encourage every reverse engineer out there give the new tools a try.
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Is it possible to recompile the output of dedexer into a new .dex file?
No and it is not planned by me. However, I welcome if anyone wants to write such a tool. :-)
Dedexer wants to be a good decompiler, not more, not less. The long-term goal is decompilation to Java (one always has to have a dream ... :-)).
How is the decompilation to java coming along?
Just 'java-like hints' would be nice :-)
I'm curious what issue you ran into when you tried to reassemble the output of baksmali. It should be re-assemblable. If it isn't, it's a bug :)
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