> Xposed is very underrated as a reverse engineering tool.
I fully agree, but on the off chance you don't know about it already, I highly suggest you look into Frida as well. It can do all the same things Xposed can (hook function, see or change output), but is a lot faster to iterate on since you don't need to compile anything and can even do some things in a REPL.
That, coupled with the new jadx-gui's "copy as frida/xposed" snippet and the usual suspects for network monitoring (mitmproxy/charles), is a crazy powerful Android reverse engineering workflow.
I heard about Frida but never tried it myself yet.
The thing with Xposed that makes iteration slow isn't even the fact that you need to compile your module. That part is fast. You also need to reboot the device to apply your changes, that's the slowest part.
I fully agree, but on the off chance you don't know about it already, I highly suggest you look into Frida as well. It can do all the same things Xposed can (hook function, see or change output), but is a lot faster to iterate on since you don't need to compile anything and can even do some things in a REPL.
That, coupled with the new jadx-gui's "copy as frida/xposed" snippet and the usual suspects for network monitoring (mitmproxy/charles), is a crazy powerful Android reverse engineering workflow.