Explore a jar or dex file

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A JAR (Java ARchive) file is a file that contains the class, image, and sound files for a Java application or applet gathered into a single file and possibly compressed.
When a programmer gets a Java program development kit, a small program or utility called "jar" is included.
The jar utility lets the programmer create, list, or extract the individual files from a JAR file.
The JAR format is based on the popular zip file format.

To open and explore a jar file follow these instructions:

If you have a jar:

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dex2jar.sh myJar.jar

this command will make a new file myJar_dex2jar

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jd-gui myJar_dex2jar.jar

dex2jar can be found here:
https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar


jd-gui can be found here:
http://jd.benow.ca/
https://github.com/java-decompiler/jd-gui