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Dex-Editor-Android

Work-in-progress Android app for editing DEX files on the device, built on a modified in-tree copy of Google's smali, baksmali and dexlib2. It loads one or more DEX files into a class tree and opens classes as smali in a Sora Editor view with method, field and string lists, label jumps, search and replace, method flow diagrams and Jadx decompilation of a class or method to Java, then deletes classes or recompiles the edited DEX files. The README credits MT Manager for the app's logic and interface ideas.

Targets
App
Category
Android tools
Relationship
Foundation tool
Sources reviewed

Requirements & limits

  • Latest release at review: v2.0-sora-editor, published 2026-06-09 with one app-release.apk, while the README's sample-app link still points to v1.3_final of 2025-04-29; the reviewed main commit of 2026-07-29 adds later fixes and merged contributor pull requests. The README lists DEX format versions 40 and, partially, 41, and its to-do list still has batch class insertion and extraction and a direct class renamer.
  • Build with Android Studio, JDK 17 or 21, Gradle 9.5.0 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.2.1; app/build.gradle compiles against SDK 37 with minSdk 24 and targetSdk 28, and the README also mentions Sketchware Pro on Java 11. Dependencies include jadx-core 1.4.7, Sora Editor 0.23.6 and bundled antlr and commons-io JARs. CI builds debug and unsigned release APKs, and the only unit and instrumented tests are the Android Studio examples.
  • The file picker selects DEX files the user supplies. An AI Explanation screen that the README does not mention sends a smali method picked from the method list, with a default register-usage prompt or a user-edited one, to Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash API using an API key entered in settings; method flow diagrams are drawn locally with a bundled Graphviz viz.js build.
  • LICENSE is Apache-2.0 (copyright 2024-26 Krushna Chandra), but the README adds that the code may not be used in private projects and that contributions are welcome only in this repository, restrictions Apache-2.0 itself does not contain, so reuse terms are unclear; the in-tree smali code keeps Google's BSD-style notices. This review built nothing and edited no DEX files, and the sources establish no REA connection.

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Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  2. app/build.gradle GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  3. app/src/main/java/modder/hub/dexeditor/activity/AIOverViewActivity.java GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  4. app/src/main/java/modder/hub/dexeditor/fragment/SmaliMethodFieldListFragment.java GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  5. app/src/main/java/modder/hub/dexeditor/utils/DexFileSelector.java GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  6. app/src/main/java/com/android/tools/smali GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  7. .github/workflows/android.yml GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  8. LICENSE GitHub · developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android · Revision 55fd9f0
  9. https://github.com/developer-krushna/Dex-Editor-Android/releases/tag/v2.0-sora-editor

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