Yeah, I understand. What I wanted to say is Android wasn't designed to be secure. Most of things that apktool gives you are doable without it and within a reasonable time.
Logos, you say? Just unzip apk file, replace some images, pack it, resign and that's it. Strings are harder, but as long as your replacement won't be longer then current value, it is simple find & replace in resources.arsc file. Colors and other things in layouts are also very easy to modify directly in binary form. Voila, we've just built our own application in about 1 hour. Of course I won't say apktool does nothing ;-) It could simplify stealing, you gave good example of that in your comment. I just think no one should trust "security by obscurity" approach. Something is secure or it isn't. And if isn't then people shouldn't blame for this situation someone, who just see it and use it. Currently your applications could be modified without much effort and without any specialized tools, so if you are really worried about security, you should write to AOSP, don't you think? :-) And personally speaking, I could recommend you using code obfuscators. They really, really do their job - you can trust me ;-) (yeah, I'm working on some obfuscated code, but if you're curious, then no: I'm not cracking, removing some protection, stealing any ideas, code or resources, modifying credits nor reselling someone's app or any part of it) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
