Reverse Engineering techniques for Android systems: A Systematic approach

The Google Play Store has over 3 million Android apps available for download, making it the largest app store in the world. With such a vast number of apps available, there is a growing need for security and analysis, which has led to an increase in the use of reverse engineering tools and techniques. In this paper we provide an overview of the main tools used in Android reverse engineering, which are used for various activities including decompiling apk files, converting Java into Intermediate Languages (IL), and inspecting an application's Java code. The study's finding shows App Cloner and Mt manager tools have the highest precision and capabilities in optimizing and analyzing the security of the applications. This paper concludes with a discussion of the most effective reverse engineering tools and the future prospects of improvements possible for these tools.