Decompilation of The Battle Cats based off of a dex2jar and Fernflower decompilation. JADX was used to fill in some of the gaps in the decompilation as well as to create the initial Gradle project.
Original 1.0.0 APK: https://apkfree.com/download/battle-cats-1.0.0. It is a 999999 cat food APK, but all of that code has been removed
Current Version: JP 1.0.7
APKs started from version 1.0.0 because it had the least amount of code and so it was the easiest version to get a compiling and functional app. Once each version is fully working we can move on to adding code for later versions.
Discord: https://discord.gg/DvmMgvn5ZB (The server is the same one which is used for save editing as I haven't made a modding/decompilation specific one yet)
Prebuilt APKs can be found in the Releases section for the major versions once all content has been added and the APK is working properly.
A debug APK can be found in the artifacts section of the
Build APK
workflow. This APK is built from the latest code in the master branch and so
might not be working properly.
You need to be logged in to GitHub to download the APKs from the artifacts section. So if you don't have an account, you can download it from here instead. You will also need to unzip it before you can install it.
- Download Android Studio
- Clone this repository using
gitor by downloading the zip and extracting it - Open the project in Android Studio
- Wait for it to download the necessary files
- Go to the
Buildtab in the main toolbar and clickBuild Bundle(s) / APK(s)->Build APK(s) - It might need to download more stuff so just wait
- When done, click
locatein the notification or go to thebattlecats/app/build/outputs/apk/debugfolder for the final APK which you can then install. - You might need to sign the APK if you want to install it, so choose that option instead
If you want to contribute, you can fork the repository and make a pull request with your changes. I want to keep the code somewhat close to the original APK so that it is easier to update it with code from later versions.
When debugging the app, make sure that you are viewing the GLThread thread
instead of the main thread if you want to debug the main game code.
Here are some current problems with the app:
- None at the moment, let me know if you find any
List is not exhaustive, there are probably lots of other issues that I haven't noticed yet.
Some things look like issues but are actually in the original APK (e.g no screen transitions, blurry icons) but some aren't. You can install the original APK at the same time if you want to compare.