I've been asked a 'challenging' question about our...
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darkmoon_uk
02/27/2020, 12:42 PMI've been asked a 'challenging' question about our Kotlin adoption at work - that of decompiling.
Our products at work are broken down into several binary libraries and some developers, it turns out, are quite reliant on the ability to decompile these in the IDE at Application Debug time. This is not possible out-of-the-box in Android studio. Does anyone have a solution for an ability like the Fernflower decompiler (this is the name of the IDE's Java one), for Kotlin?
At this stage it can afford to be 'messier' than the Java one; I'm just looking to offer them an improvement on a 'Can't view compiled code' message.
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spand
02/27/2020, 12:45 PMIf its decompilable cant you just ship the source code with the binaries?
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darkmoon_uk
02/27/2020, 12:46 PMThis is an option, yes.
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Dico
02/27/2020, 12:55 PMThat is what I would suggest.
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ribesg
02/27/2020, 1:05 PMIntelliJ IDEA has a decompiler
ribesg
02/27/2020, 1:06 PMMaybe only Ultimate, I don’t know
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louiscad
02/27/2020, 1:10 PMShipping the sources makes way more sense to me. Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate will attempt decompiling to Java, but you loose a bunch of things in the process, including the fact that it was Kotlin with KDoc to begin with.
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darkmoon_uk
02/27/2020, 1:13 PM👍 Thanks for suggestions.
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