To install JADX-GUI, we can simply do the following in the terminal: JADX-GUI will allow us to access the app's code. Now that we have our ADB and APK installed, we can now use this APK in JADX-GUI to decompile the code. Good job! When we head back to our emulated device we can see that our app is now installed onto our device.😄 Type in the following command: adb install diva-beta.apk. Head back into your terminal, making sure you are in the directory of your APK and that you have extracted the DIVA file. Once you have downloaded it, head over to your Downloads folder and extract it by right-clicking and saying extract here.įinally, we can download our apk. The APK that we will download in this tutorial is the Diva APK. Twelve-year-old me would be so shocked to know that that is how my friend copied their GTA San Andreas game onto my phone!😶 An APK put simply, is a packaged app that we can download and install for testing purposes.

We can see that we get a list of devices that are attached, one of which is our emulated device.įrom there on, we need to install an APK to install onto our device. Once your emulated device is up and running, we can go back to our terminal and type in adb devices. Check my previous tutorial on how to do this. Once it has been installed, we can check if it 'worked' by opening Genymotion and running our installed device. Then we can install adb with the following command sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb. Once you have started up your Parrot OS system, open up a terminal using CTRL + ALT + T and run the following command: sudo apt-get update. JADX-GUI is at its core a code decompiler, so we can take our APK that we downloaded and pop it into the decompiler and voila, we can see all the source code that it contains! Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a command-line tool that lets us communicate with a device, but more importantly for this tutorial, install APKs onto our emulated device. In case you wonder, the version I use of Parrot is the Security Edition, which comes with most tools installed.🤠įirst, let's go over ADB and JADX-GUI.

A good Android Studio installation tutorial can be found here. This tutorial assumes you have Android Studio and Parrot OS installed.

Since I focused previously on Android Pentesting when I explained how to install Genymotion and VirtualBox on Parrot OS, I thought, why don't I write another tutorial on how to install ADB and JADX-GUI on Parrot OS as it is related and quite easy to do.

Recently I have dived into the journey of learning how to hack, or more precisely pen-testing.

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