Show HN: Droid ASC – An On-Demand Android Decompiler, 41–269x Faster Than JADX

Category: devtools

Tags: android, decompiler, reverse-engineering, performance, apk

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Droid ASC is an on-demand Android APK decompiler that treats the APK as a database, bypassing traditional heavy preprocessing for dramatic speed and memory improvements. It leverages R8 compiler optimizations and direct Deflate bitstream probing to achieve 41-269x faster decompilation than JADX, making large-scale APK analysis feasible on modest hardware.

Target audience: security researchers, reverse engineers, Android developers

Repository: https://github.com/MG1937/ASC · Python · Apache-2.0 · 2501 stars

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