lmao

“compiling code” doesn’t just save the files that programmers type, and put them in a zip that magically turns into a runnable file where people can just extract the file, change a value, and have a new program

I mean it does, but it does it through the process of converting human-readable code into machine language bytecode that has to be reverse-engineered back into human-readable code if a hacker wanted to change stuff in the program

the file/folder/data structure of what’s in the finished, compiled apk =/= what i see in my development environment