[Soot-list] Running soot on Android

[Bernhard Berger]

Hi Jason,

this is a limitation of the used dalvik byte code. The number of methods cannot be greater than 2^16. I don’t think there is a way to circumvent this fact (except of removing unused functions from soot).

Regards, Bernhard
 
Am 07.10.2014 um 17:19 schrieb Bodden, Eric <eric.bodden at sit.fraunhofer.de>:

> Hi Jason.
> 
> 2.5.0 has incomplete Android support. Please use the nightly build from the website.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> On 07.10.2014, at 16:40, Jason Xie <472408570 at qq.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Steven and others:
>> 
>> Recently, I am trying to use the soot in android application.But I encounter problem in generating the APK(I put the latest soot-2.5.0.jar in libs folder),like the "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" or "dex method limit 65536".I want to know is there anyone successfully using soot in android to instrument the apk?.
>> 
>> Regards&Thanks
>> Jason
>> 
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