Hi tech buddies how's your SKActions coming along, maybe this has already been answered, I don't know, I just didn't have 8 hours to spend looking through the searches,:). Basically, can I put an iPa file on Android. How and will it work, as in can I install it and play it on the android phone. If not, how do I do it? Thanks, may the Swift be with you!
I'm assuming you are talking about an apple installer? You can store it on an android device as a file, but Android devices use the APK format as the install file format. The IPA file will not be able to be installed on an Android device.
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I am new to programming my own apps, since I used to work on old programs on the pc. Is there a file like the .exe in my old programs? Little backround information: I need to execute the app on a phone without a physical connection and without the typical appstores. In my imagination I can store something like the release file online and my users can download it?
Thanks for teaching me.
Hello and welcome to the community! On Android, the file you are looking for is called an APK, you can take that file and install it on other devices easily. For iOS it's a bit more complicated and you can't share the IPA files and install them as for android, you are confined to using a physical device or sending it over using testflight, which is provided by Apple for testers.
You can find those APK files inside your project's folder in the following path:
build/app/outputs/flutter-apk
There is an App which features downloading their videos for offline viewing via their Android and Windows app. I was wondering where does this app saves these videos and if they are encrypted, how to decrypt and play them?
I am a programmer but I know nothing about Android/windows app development, here is what I have been able to hack so far:
On Android
It seems like it saves videos at
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com..android.root/files/videos//encrypted/
These files have no extension, I copied them to my laptop and tried giving different popular media extensions, nothing worked so far in neither of WMP, VLC & Quicktime Player.
I tried to identify file type using TrID (as specified in this link and this utility suggests it is an mp3 file (while it should be a video), I changed the extension to mp3, it did not worked either.
I tried opening the file in ISO buster and several other apps. Finally while trying different things, on android system itself when I choose the option to compute checks, it display some MD5 and SHA-1 values. I am not much familiar with these terms but figured out, these files seems to be encrypted.
If I try to directly open this file on Android, System starts generating Hex Dump and then file explorer crashes.
Now if these files are really the video files and are encrypted, is there a way I can decrypt them and play directly in a video player?
On windows store App in my laptop's Windows 8.1
I found App files are stored at:
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\.com..com_1.5.0.2_neutral_split.scale-140_
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\.com..com_1.5.0.2_x64__
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\.com..com_2015.924.1324.2728_neutral_~_
I was able to figure out how to assign privileges to currently logged in User and gain the access to reach at these paths but couldn't make any further progress to find encrypted or non-encrypted video files in these folders at all.
I understand that if I really just want to download the video files there is much better and easier way - directly log in to their website and use any video grabber application or extension, it's as easy as that, which does works.
But my intention here is not to download videos but rather I am just curious to do ethical hacking for learning and exploring things. Just want to understand whether it is even possible to decrypt, find appropriate extension and play them directly without the app or not. And where does both Android and Windows Apps are actually storing these videos on my own device which I am unable to access/play without App.. huh well done app developers!
Any help or pointers appreciated.
Since Lynda is using HTML5 just click Save as on the video an download it as a mp4....
For Mac users, you can find the offline files at
~/Library/Containers/com.lyndadotcom.lyndaosx/Data/Library/Caches/com.lyndadotcom.lyndaosx/offlnvds/
Cheers!
I was wondering the same thing and I done some exploring with windirstat and found a large bunch of files at:
C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Packages\lynda.com.lynda.com_0dmhem0sv94sr\LocalState\offline\194074
They are .file but the large ones are the videos and they play fine in vlc. Could probably mess around with them and add the .avi or whatever, to the end for completeness if you wanted..
Alright, so the above listed solutions worked for a while but Lynda was smart enough to begin encrypting the downloaded videos. And hence just finding the downloaded content is not good enough anymore.
I could not find a way to decrypt the videos downloaded by the Windows Store app but someone did a great job in decrypting the videos downloaded by the Desktop app (yes, it is different), which is not as popular as the store app.
You can download the desktop version of this app from here.
Find encrypted downloaded vdos here:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\lynda.com\Lynda.com Desktop App\offline\ldc_dl_courses
and decrypt them using this tool.
This is how:
Browse to:
C:\Users\*User Name*\AppData\Local\Packages\lynda.com.lynda.com_0dmhem0sv94sr\LocalState\offline\*XXXXXX*
Add the extension .mp4 to the files in that folder.
(If you download the files in order they will be alot easier to name because it will be possible to sort by date and time.)
Open a Command Window in that folder (as administrator)
Run the following command in the folder containing your extesionless video files to give all of them .mp4 extesions.
ren *. *.mp4
if you use lynda.com Windows Store App you can find it under
C:\Users{userName}\AppData\Local\Packages\lynda.com.lynda.com_0dmhem0sv94sr\LocalState\offline
for those who use "Lynda Desktop App" to find the exact location for
video files in windows
Run Lynda Desktop App from App menu on top left of app select
"Options" you can find path of downloaded files there "Course
Download location" also you can change it to any path you want,and
its default location is
."C:\Users\{userName}\AppData\Local\lynda.com\Lynda.com Desktop App\offline\ldc_dl_courses"
for those who can not play files using VLC now offline App Encrypt files so it can only decrypted and played with lynda offline App only
if any one needs how to decrypt files I have already developed tool for my personnel use to do so but I think I can not share it for public
i need to format and reinstall my macbook air.
my android keystore is located on my hardrive.
what is the best way to preserve it?
last time i tried putting it on a portable hard drive made it corrupted.
is it even possible?
You can store the *.keystore file wherever you want. I have both stored this in dropbox, and also mailed the file to myself (using GMail). There is nothing OS specific about this file, and it can be saved anywhere without issue.
To be clear, you can store it on a portable hard-drive, so something else must have caused your previous issue.
Mine has been on my Dropbox for years, and never had any issues. I switch between Mac OS X and Windows all the time.
After installing the .apk file in my device ,when i am trying to open it it is saying Unfortunately the application has stopped.
Its working fine on my Rhomobile's Android Rhosimulator,then I cant understand why it is saying so.
Update:
Today I built the .apk file in my local machine which size is 11mb compare to the size of the .apk file which I had built on Rhohub which was 3.5mb,One interesting fact is that the file built on local machine is working but it has created 2 more problems:
1. The .apk file size is too much for a simple application which my fellow developer had built purely on android and java and it was 1 mb.
2. The css file which I has included is working some time when I open the application and some times it doesn't work.
Guys can you help me to reduce the file size I know that being cross platform(Rhomobile) size may be large but 11 times more is too much.
Ok guys I dont know how it happened, I think because I didn't try to run the application with any other android versions.
So finally my application was created successfully and built with only 2.5mb.
Same is the case with me. I just have Rholog.txt and i have a question, do we need Android SDK on local system configured in Rhostudio to make the app work on actual android device.
For testing i use rhosimulator inside rhostudio.
Looking to replace a ZIRE31 Palm device I need a PalmReader equivalent for Android. Not having a new device yet (although thinking about the Archos43 model) I am running developer.android.com's SDK which has an emulator in it. Using the emulator I would like to try out ereader.com's application called "eReader_android_1.0.39.apk" from their site. But the download link they supply is actually a ZIP file with lots of little files. I need the simpler APK file to install with the 'adb' command. Does anyone know where I can find it?
I bought a SmartQ V5-II ($130 + $30 shipping from ALLPMP) in early December. It has Linux and Android OS's on it. I have concentrated my development on the Linux OS and have no need to try out the eReader_android_1.0.39.apk application anymore. Under Linux I found the V5-II has the FBReader application which supports the reading of e-books in the EPUB format as well as many others. I have learned enough about EPUB format to convert the text file I wish to read on my V5-II into EPUB. Problem solved!