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Jeff Bootsholz
Jeff Bootsholz

Reputation: 3068

Is it possible to reverse engineering to get the original source code from .ipa file?

I am currently a iPhone apps developer and trying to learn the mechanism of generating the audio impulses by extracting the current ipa solutions and github solutions

When using Hopper to extract , only recompiled and incomplete assembly codes are generated. We cannot see any objective classes for further exploration .

Are there any alternatives to achieve this aim ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6948

Answers (2)

nielsbot
nielsbot

Reputation: 16031

There are such things as decompilers, but not sure if there's one for iOS/Objective-C. Anyway you won't get back the original source, variable names, comments, etc. So it's still a slog.

Instead of reversing someone's app why not ask "how to" questions on stackoverflow? ;-)

Also, you can see the classes defined in the program, try nm.

Upvotes: 7

Choppin Broccoli
Choppin Broccoli

Reputation: 3076

Nope, the IPA file doesn't contain any source code. Which is a good thing, I think most developers want privacy with their material.

Upvotes: 4

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