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Can you read app memory?

Kyler91

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Just general interest, can you read app's memory? Let's say I wrote an app in c++ and I had a some significantly named global constant string. Is it possible to reverse engineer it to look up the string?
Because from one point of view, I would say no - because mobile phone probably is not powerful enought to be reading and writing pages of memory. I also dont think there is a way for one app to interface with another app's ram.
But on the other hand... You can read memory of other program in Windows. So if u were to run your APK in simulator, then I suppose you could read simulator's memory?
 
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