tools for reverse-engineering APKs

• JEB decompiler
  • This is the tool that the APK Insight folks use to do their analysis, so it must be powerful software.
  • It is quite expensive — It costs $120/month for each user.
• Androguard
• radare2
  • documentation
  • for Android binaries, I think it can only decompile Dalvik binaries, which makes it of limited use, I believe?
• the Google-supplied aapt2 tool has a dump feature that (TODO)
• other articles similar to this one, that list possible tools to use:
  • 2022 journal article that name-drops several useful tools
  • 2015 journal article
  • securityonline.info/android-arsenal-reverse-engineering-tools/