1000 views

Yesterday I saw 1000 views in the stat page of the blog. I believe that not all of the views were generated myself :) The most popular blog posts are

• Debugging Smali code with apk-tool and NetBeans works!
• Breakpoints in Smali code
• Как я устанавливал Day Z

So my readers like technical how-to guides. That's good! However, I have no comments yet. At all. It looks like my readers have nothing to say. Heloooooo! Are you there?!. Say something :)

P.S. Today I have iPhone 4s for my experiments. The next posts will be about jailbreak and/or debugging iOS applications without source code.

Day Z will be a standalone game

Good news everyone! They say that Day Z will be a standalone game. The new game will follow "Minecraft development model". I hope it will come soon.

A yoga guy

Today night, after a beer party in Shultz, the local pub, my comrades and I visited Kavomania to drink a cup of coffee before say goodbye to each other and go home. And we saw a real yoga guy there! He wore white and looked like a tramp. The yoga guy was saying something (via a translator), people around him was listening. The café owner, who also was there, told us that the yoga guy is from another country and he is some kind of a spirit teacher. "He was a hippie in the 70s", the owner told.

We did not listen to the yoga guy (probably, because no one of us needed a spirit teacher at that moment :)), but he looked funny :)

Breakpoints in Smali code

In one of my previous posts I wrote a step-by-step instruction how to debug Smali code with Apktool and NetBeans. However, there were no details about breakpoints, just a short note in steps 12 and 13

12. Set breakpoint. You must select line with some instruction, you can't set breakpoint on lines starting with ".", ":" or "#".

13. Trigger some action in application. If you run at breakpoint, then thread should stop and you will be able to debug step by step, watch variables, etc.

In this post I'm going to share more information about breakpoints in Smali code.

Debugging Smali code with apk-tool and NetBeans works!

Ho-ho-ho, it works now! Here is a (more or less detailed) how-to. To debug Smali code with apk-tool, you need

1. Apk-tool 1.4.1 and NetBeans 6.8. Use these versions, not the latest ones! Currently, the latest versions of apk-tool and NetBeans do not allow to debug Smali code.
2. Java, JDK and other stuff installed in your system to make Apk-tool and  NetBeans working

3 movies i didn't finish watching

The list of idiotic movies I didn't finish watching last week:

• Ghost Machine. Cheap special effects, bad acting, very trivial story. 
• Adam Chaplin. 100% trash.
• One more movie... something about zombies... shit! I even do not remember the name of that crap.

Thinking to buy Day Z...

I start thinking to create Steam account and buy the Day Z mod. I watched some videos on Youtube, the mod looks really cool for me. I think I should try the mod and share my experience here, in the blog.

Fink is coming

Apk-tool and NetBeans do not work for me, so I'm coding my own tool called Fink. It's not a full-featured debugger; but anyway, it should help me to trace Smali inside an Android application, without Java sources. At least, I hope so :)