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		gavinray on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app The decompiler they used to view that code is not very good, that output is garbled. If you're going to take apart JVM bytecode, you're better off using Recafe or Quiltflower. https://github.com/Col-E/Recaf https://github.com/QuiltMC/quiltflower

GranPC on July 7, 2022 [–]

The reason the output is "garbled" is because it was obfuscated with ProGuard - there's no real way around that except for manually renaming variables and classes.

Any idea whether any of these two decompilers work with Dalvik bytecode?

AtNightWeCode on July 7, 2022 | [–]

You could always use dex2jar first. https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar

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