MG1937/ASC
ASC is a super FAST and lightweight Android decompiler designed for Agents/Mobile Researchers.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
Loading star history...
Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 9 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a super fast Android decompiler front-end that queries compiled APK artifacts directly without heavy preprocessing.
- Delivers lightning-fast cross DEX code searches and on-demand decompilation using minimal memory by treating APKs as read-only databases.
- Use for rapid reverse engineering of large Android APKs without waiting for heavy indexing or full artifact inflation.
- Use for extracting and decompiling specific classes or methods instantly from APKs in memory for targeted code analysis.
- Use for automated code reference searches across all DEX files in an APK to locate strings, types, methods, or fields efficiently.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
When decompiling massive Android APKs, the standard procedure is to wait. We wait for tools to eat gigabytes of RAM, fully inflate the artifacts, and spend tens of minutes building heavy global indexes and cross references... All of this is just to guarantee fast code searches later, but here is the contradiction. A compiled artifact is already highly structured, modern decompilers never utilize this, they waste massive amounts of time and memory reconstructing a bloated database of code relationships over already structured data. This engineering approach defies common sense. When I can directly extract any code relationship from the APK in milliseconds, does this preprocessing still hold any value?
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,570 stars over 52 days across 7 snapshot days; best day +207 on Sep 16.
Forks
379+189
Open issues
7+0
Compared with peers in AI Agents
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 13.5K | +6.0K | 45 | today |
| HKUDS/DeepTutor | 55.5K | +5.5K | 65 | 5 days ago |
| MG1937/ASC | 2.7K | — | 36 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 55.5K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
Discover Repositories
Search across tracked repositories by name or description