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Google Android compiled executable
File type: Program executable file
Files with dex extension is related to Google Android operating system and used for its compiled executable files.
Found 4 different file type records with the same dex filename suffix.
File type category:
Program executable file
Date updated: December 25, 2024
File extension dex is related to the Dalvik Virtual Machine system.
Dalvik is a core part of Google Android operating system and used to run applications written for Android.
A .dex file contains compiled JAVA source code to Dalvik Executable format.
Compiled dex file included as part of apk archives with other resources, such as settings, graphics, sounds etc. which are needed by Dalvik to run the application.
DEX file is in binary file format, which is not readable. There are utilities such as Dedexer that can disassemble the DEX files, but these ways how to read source code from DEX files are only for skilled programmers.
DEX file can not be converted to any other file format, DEX file can be only disassemble in to assembly-like format.
Software applications that can open dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Google Android
Software apps that create dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that import dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that export dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that recover dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Google Android
The APK file format is default application package format used by operating system for smart phones...
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: March 29, 2018
The dex file extension is also used DEXIS program, a is special dentist X-ray system used in dentist laboratories.
The dex file used by DEXIS contains digitally captured dental radiographs.
Most likely these files can only be opened in DEXIS or similar dental software.
Possibly can be exported as plain images.
Programs for viewing dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software applications that handle other tasks involving dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: December 22, 2016
The dex file extension is related to the Disketch, a label design program for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by NCH Software.
The dex file stores labeling project created with this tool.
Use Disketch to work with *.dex files.
Software applications that can open dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that print dex files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Spreadsheet and workbook file
Date updated: September 4, 2018
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The dex file extension was in the past also associated with Microsoft Excel, one of the most popular and powerful tool you can use to create format spreadsheets, graphs and much more.
The Excel' .dex files were used in some earlier version of the program for spreadsheets documents.
The default file extensions, that are used by Microsoft Excel, are xls or since Microsoft Office 2007 the xlsx.
You can try to open *.dex files in Microsoft Excel.
Probably can be converted like any other spreadsheet, provided you find a program that can still open this file type.
Software applications that can open dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create dex files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving dex files:
Microsoft Windows