APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code(github.com)
154 pointsby nateb20226 days ago4 comments
  • anakaine6 days ago
    This looks excellent. Im very curious about the MITM component - it might be quite useful to highlight things / APIs apps are connecting to.
    • georgemcbay5 days ago
      Its always been pretty easy to insert a network configuration file into an app apk's Manifest to get it to support user installed certificates so you can route ssl connections through an ssl proxy.

      Its actually kind of annoying that it isn't just an OS feature (hidden behind a scary settings option that's also hidden behind being in developer mode) to enable user installed certs for any installed application. Much less annoying to debug network issues on iOS because of this and Android isn't really any more secure for it.

    • MrDresden5 days ago
      In case mitmproxy[0] is unknown to you, I would recommend giving it a look if this is something you are interested in.

      [0] https://mitmproxy.org/

      • buildfocus5 days ago
        https://httptoolkit.com also worth a look if you're interested in this space: has some neat automated setup for Android MITM that can be much simpler _and_ more effective than the manual config route (with automated Frida setup on rooted devices, so it handles unpinning too!). More UI & less CLI focused, so depends which way your preferences go there.
    • nsteel5 days ago
      If you just want to see domains being connected to, then I believe most android firewall applications provide that functionality. Generally much easier to setup that MITM in Android.
  • wiseowise6 days ago
    Extremely ironic that there’s a plugin like that for VSCode, but not for Android Studio.
    • bradyriddle5 days ago
      Eh, I can see how this isn't exactly the kind of functionality that Google wants in Android Studio.
      • deepsun5 days ago
        Well, no one prevents to develop and distribute plugins for IntelliJ, there's even Plugin DevKit. I bet Jetbrains would welcome it. Not sure Google could do anything there.
  • brianhama6 days ago
    This project hasn’t been updated in quite some time. Does anyone know if there’s a more active fork or something that’s replaced this?
    • flexagoon6 days ago
      No fork, but APKLab is basically just a front end for a few other tools that are being updated
  • tamperoff5 days ago
    14 year old me would love this, making custom roms on xda.