# The devel/dex2jar port

## dex2jar-2.4p1 – tools to work with android .dex and java .class files

## Description

    dex2jar contains following compment
    * dex-reader is designed to read the Dalvik Executable (.dex/.odex) format. It
    has a light weight API similar with ASM.
    * dex-translator is designed to do the convert job. It reads the dex instruction
    to dex-ir format, after some optimize, convert to ASM format.
    * dex-ir used by dex-translator, is designed to represent the dex instruction
    dex-tools tools to work with .class files.
    * d2j-smali disassemble dex to smali files and assemble dex from smali files.
    different implementation to smali/baksmali, same syntax, but we support escape
    in type desc "Lcom/dex2jar\t\u1234;"
    * dex-writer write dex same way as dex-reader.

WWW: https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar

Only for arches
  aarch64 amd64 i386 sparc64
Categories:
  devel java security

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- archivers/unzip

## Run dependencies

- java/javaPathHelper
- jdk->=11v0:devel/jdk/11