| About 10 years ago I was contacted by an agency I used to work with, that they needed to change a little feature in the android app for the austrian lotteries. The problem they had was that they had managed to lose the source code of the app, lol. Since the app was a simple webview wrapper I decompiled the apk to some horrendous java monstrocity and carefully extracted all used logic, the html, css and js and created a new webview app with the slightly modified code. Oh and I had no experience in Java or Android development :) Another hack I was very proud of: Some weeks ago I had to pick something up with a car trailer. I went to my parent's place to get it and when checking if the lights worked (it was dark already) it turned out that they did not. Since I was driving to a larger city I could not just go without lights. The problem was, that I really had to pick this up and also I had no extra time to find an alternative solution, so I wiggled the jack of the trailer's cable in all directions hoping to clear out some oxidation. After some minutes of trying I found a specific position in which the lights seemed to work. Taking out the good old duct tape from my car's trunk I fixated the jack against the trailer hitch. For some reason it actually worked and did not break. I was very proud of this hack! Obviously I didn't fix it yet :-P |