Is there a way to get the source code from an APK file?

Question

The hard drive on my laptop just crashed and I lost all the source code for an app that I have been working on for the past two months. All I have is the APK file that is st

Answer 1

There's an app for that and generally takes just a few clicks and you are done. https://github.com/Nuvolect/DeepDive-Android

1. Select Apps, under "Installed Apps" select your app. If it is not there you can load the APK.
2. Select "Extract APK"
3. Select "Unpack APK"
4. Select "Decompile with Jadx". This can take a few seconds or a few minutes depending on the speed of your device

After that you can browse the source code, download it to another computer with elFinder or search through it using Lucene.

In addition to Jadx it has CFR and Fernflower decompilers.