Level 2: the secret is on the native side, debugging and patching native library. Level 1: the secret is on the Java side, debugging Java code. MSTG provides several CREACKMEs with varying difficulty level I’m going to go over the basic ones, level 1 and level 2 (in my next blog post). What is a CRACKME? Think of it as an app built purposefully to be cracked. I’m going to present here a solution for two Android CRACKMEs provided by it. There is a great online resource dedicated to mobile security: the Mobile Security Testing Guide ( MSTG).

Please note that this change will not be permanent and you will have to do this operation every time you run the emulator.This is a blog-post version of my Cracking UnCrackable Android Apps webinar. $ adb devicesĪndroid Console: type 'help' for a list of commands You can get this information using the *adb devices* command. You will need the name and port of your emulator. Once the emulator is launched, connect to you device using the *telnet* command. If you launch the emulator from Titanium Studio, it will default to the original settings. Note: You must launch the emulator this way every time. Go back to Titanium Studio and ‘Launch’ your app again.

Launch the emulator from the AVD Manager.

Set the ‘Screen Size (in):’ field to the size you want.

Set your monitor’s screen size and current resolution.

Click the ‘?’ button right to the ‘Monitor dpi’ field.

It enables the ‘Screen Size’ and ‘Monitor dpi’ options in the middle.

Check the ‘Scale display to real size’ checkbox.

Select the emulator that was just created.

(It is located in here: ‘$ANDROID_SDK/tools/android’ or you can refer to this tutorial)

In Titanium Studio, run your application once in the emulator that you want to use so that it will create a virtual device.In this tutorial we’ll cover a couple of ways to resize or scale the Android Emulator.

The most up-to-date version is available in the wiki. Editor’s note: This blog post is a basic tutorial.

Android avd manager