Popular Android Development Websites and Blogs

Hello Everyone,

Here is the some of the Android Development Blogs which definitely helps you while developing android application.

Hope this list will helpful to you..!

Android Developers Blog	http://android-developers.blogspot.in/
Developer Android	http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
Romain Guy	http://www.curious-creature.org/category/android/
Styling Android	http://blog.stylingandroid.com/
Cyril Mottier	http://cyrilmottier.com/
Android Weekly.	http://androiddevweekly.com/
The CommansBlog	http://commonsware.com/blog/
InterFuser	http://www.inter-fuser.com/
Truiton.com	http://www.truiton.com/
Android Views	http://www.androidviews.net/
Apps Rox	http://www.appsrox.com/
Mobile Tus	www.mobile.tutsplus.com
Androidhive	www.androidhive.info
Code Of A Ninja	www.codeofaninja.com
Vogella	www.vogella.com/android.html
Java Papers	www.javapapers.com
Android-er	www.android-er.blogspot.com
Mkyong	http://www.mkyong.com/tutorials/android-tutorial
Java2s	www.java2s.com
Dan Clarke	www.dan.clarke.name
My Sample Code	www.mysamplecode.com
Android Design Patterns	www.androiddesignpatterns.com
Wagied Davids	www.w2davids.wordpress.com
MyDoople	www.mydoople.com
Viralpatel	http://viralpatel.net/blogs/category/android/
Scaloid	www.blog.scaloid.org
Android UI	www.androiduiux.com
Android Begin	http://www.androidbegin.com/category/tutorial/
Programmer Guru	www.android.programmerguru.com
Marakana	https://thenewcircle.com/s/tags/android
Grokking Android	www.grokkingandroid.com
Android Patterns	www.androidpatterns.com
Android Education	www.android-ed.blogspot.com
Android App Market	www.android-app-market.com
Java Code Geeks	http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2010/10/android-full-application-tutorial.html
New Think Tank	http://www.newthinktank.com/category/web-design/android-development-tutorial/
Android Aspect	www.androidaspect.com
Android Hub 4 You	www.androidhub4you.com
Surviving With Android	www.survivingwithandroid.com
Knowledge of Experience	http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/category/android/
Clean Code	http://cleancodedevelopment-qualityseal.blogspot.com.br/search/label/android
Think Android	www.thinkandroid.wordpress.com
Mr Bool	www.mrbool.commrbool.com
Android Guide Tips	http://jmsliu.com/category/android
Android Tuts	www.androidituts.com

Happy Development. Happy Reading.

Reverse Engineering of Android applications

I happy share my answer from Stack Overflow regarding to reverse engineered the android application (.apk). 

Procedure for decoding .apk files, step-by-step method:

Step 1:

Make a new folder and put .apk file in it (which you want to decode). Now rename the extension of this .apk file to .zip (eg.: rename from filename.apk to filename.apk.zip) and save it.

If problems in the converting into .zip please refers below link

http://www.mediacollege.com/microsoft/windows/extension-change.html

After getting .zip now you get classes.dex files, etc. At this stage you are able to see 
drawable but not xml and java files, so continue.

If you don’t see the extensions go through check the configuration 

Step 2:

Now extract this zip apk file in the same folder. Now download dex2jar from this link http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/ and extract it to the same folder. Now open command prompt and change directory to that folder.

Then write dex2jar classes.dex and press enter. Now you get classes.dex.dex2jar file in the same folder.

Then download java de-compiler from http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui and now double click on jd-gui and click on open file. Then open classes.dex.dex2jar file from that folder. Now you get class files and save all these class files (click on file then click "save all sources" in jd-gui) by src name. Extract that zip file (classes_dex2jar.src.zip) and you will get all java files of the application.

At this stage you get java source but the xml files are still unreadable, so continue.

Step 3:

Now open another new folder and put these files

1.    put .apk file which you want to decode

2.    download

Apktool for windows v1.x https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/detail?name=apktool-install-windows-r04-brut1.tar.bz2

And Apktool https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/detail?name=apktool1.4.1.tar.bz2&can=2&q=

install window using google and put in the same folder

3.    download framework-res.apk file using google and put in the same folder (Not all apk file need framework-res.apk file)

4.    Open a command window

5.    Navigate to the root directory of APKtool and type the following command: 

apktool if framework-res.apk.

Above command should result in "Framework installed ...".

6.    apktool d "appName".apk ("appName" denotes application which you want to decode) now you get a file folder in that folder and now you can easily read xml files also.

Step 4:

Finally we got the res/ as well as java code of project which is our target at starting. Enjoys the coding

Src –

1.     http://comptech-blogger.blogspot.in/2012/09/how-to-get-source-code-from-apk-file.html
2.     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3593420/android-getting-source-code-from-an-apk-file