# ClassyShark

> Google's standalone browser for Android executables and libraries that shows class interfaces and members, dex counts and dependencies. It opens .dex, .aar and .so libraries, .apk, .jar and .class executables and Android binary XML files such as AndroidManifest, resources and layouts, and it can export what it shows as text.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: App
- Category: Android tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-05
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark/blob/78ddba71b0d869cc6283f8cdbb2061b6e57a3781/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/classyshark/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/classyshark/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/classyshark/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Runs as a JAR (java -jar ClassyShark.jar) on a Java runtime; Arch Linux users can install a prebuilt JAR from the AUR. The latest release is 8.2, published 2018-07-25, and the repository was archived on GitHub after its last commit on 2023-05-19.
- **Limits:** The README marks its API finder as work in progress; a command-line reference ships as CommandLine.pdf in the repository.
- **License:** Apache-2.0 per LICENSE.txt and the README.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark/blob/78ddba71b0d869cc6283f8cdbb2061b6e57a3781/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark/blob/78ddba71b0d869cc6283f8cdbb2061b6e57a3781/CommandLine.pdf>
3. <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark/blob/78ddba71b0d869cc6283f8cdbb2061b6e57a3781/LICENSE.txt>
4. <https://github.com/google/android-classyshark/releases/tag/8.2>

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