I Decompiled the White House's New App

The White House released an app on the App Store and Google Play. They posted a blog about it. "Unparalleled access to the Trump Administration."

It took a few minutes to pull the APKs with ADB, and threw them into JADX.

Here is everything I found.

What Is This App?

It's a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called "forty-five-press" according to the Expo config.

The actual app logic is compiled into a 5.5 MB Hermes bytecode bundle. The native Java side is just a thin wrapper.

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Version 47.0.1. Build 20. Hermes enabled. New Architecture enabled. Nothing weird here. Let's keep going.

Expo Config

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