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"Reverse engineering" makes it sound as if the .apk format is obfuscated or protected. It's just a zip file with files inside.

It's not a reverse engineering tool any more than unzip or tar are.

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Not true. You can go unzip an apk and for one resources.arsc won't be decoded, classes.dex won't be disassembled and any xml file will be in its binary axml format.

The important part is not the unzip, it's the backsmaling (converting the .dex file in several Smali files), which is akin to .exe decompilation into C files.

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