The loading spinner spun. Once. Twice.
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The app launched.
She ran javap -c on the most problematic class. Method verifyPin called javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec —fine. But also sun.security.pkcs.PKCS7 —not fine. Android had stripped all sun.* packages. The loading spinner spun
Then the real conversion:
The problem: a core payment module, legacy_auth_v3.jar , needed to run in the new Dalvik runtime. But Android hadn’t read raw JARs like that since Gingerbread. Today’s build system demanded —Dalvik Executable—compressed, optimized, and bytecode-verified. convert jar to dex