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Unbundling Pokémon Go for Android

53 points by OrangeTux 10y ago

pingec 10y ago
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110244
K71 10y ago
Amazing work !
kristofferR 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev has much more about reverse engineering of Pokemon Go.
- acq 10y ago
  I agree. I just did not know it existed before writing this article. It was actually pointed to me on r/androiddev: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4ta09c/pokemon_go_reverse_engineering_the_android_app/d5fwwuu https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4ta09c/pokemon_.... But this was intended more on an Android perspective (taking Pokémon Go as an example), than on a game perspective.
codepodu 10y ago
Ugh. Thin, low-contrast, unreadable typography.
gravypod 10y ago
I've got to say I learned something rather strange from this. I've never heard of ReactiveX and I'm glad to see someone's made it. I've been writing the same functionality with less safety and features for years. I'll be switching to this. Great find for me. Thanks!
Joof 10y ago
So this means I may be able to hook my current fitness band up like a pokemon go plus? I hope it does; worth a try.
pheeney 10y ago
Does anyone know of any good resources to learn more about reverse engineering apps: Books, Blogs, Online Learning Courses, etc?
kristianp 10y ago
>> Actually, most of the imports we were seeing are coming from Upsight, which has a tremendous amount of dependencies (the list, with their number of methods: RxAndroid (4k), Dagger (~200), Commons IO (1k), Jackson (10k), Otto (~50), various Play Services (12k)), on top of their own code (3k methods): Upsight sounds like something to avoid.
- on_and_off 10y ago
  most (all ? ) advertising and ads libraries are awful. Especially ads, the mobile devs are not their customers, the companies that buy the ad space are. Their goal is to display as many ads as possible and they don't have to care about the negative consequences on performances and/or quality.

53 points by OrangeTux 10y ago

pingec 10y ago

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110244

K71 10y ago

Amazing work !

kristofferR 10y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev has much more about reverse engineering of Pokemon Go.

acq 10y ago
I agree. I just did not know it existed before writing this article. It was actually pointed to me on r/androiddev: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4ta09c/pokemon_go_reverse_engineering_the_android_app/d5fwwuu https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4ta09c/pokemon_.... But this was intended more on an Android perspective (taking Pokémon Go as an example), than on a game perspective.

codepodu 10y ago

Ugh. Thin, low-contrast, unreadable typography.

gravypod 10y ago

I've got to say I learned something rather strange from this. I've never heard of ReactiveX and I'm glad to see someone's made it. I've been writing the same functionality with less safety and features for years. I'll be switching to this. Great find for me. Thanks!

Joof 10y ago

So this means I may be able to hook my current fitness band up like a pokemon go plus? I hope it does; worth a try.

pheeney 10y ago

Does anyone know of any good resources to learn more about reverse engineering apps: Books, Blogs, Online Learning Courses, etc?

kristianp 10y ago

>> Actually, most of the imports we were seeing are coming from Upsight, which has a tremendous amount of dependencies (the list, with their number of methods: RxAndroid (4k), Dagger (~200), Commons IO (1k), Jackson (10k), Otto (~50), various Play Services (12k)), on top of their own code (3k methods): Upsight sounds like something to avoid.

on_and_off 10y ago
most (all ? ) advertising and ads libraries are awful. Especially ads, the mobile devs are not their customers, the companies that buy the ad space are. Their goal is to display as many ads as possible and they don't have to care about the negative consequences on performances and/or quality.