This is the Java/Grails equivalent that can decode , encode requests sent encrypted using https://github.com/scottyab/AESCrypt-Android. Be sure to use the adv methods for weak IV vector issues

AESCrypt.java

package pbcs;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.StringUtils;


public final class AESCrypt {
	
	private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(AESCrypt.class);
	
	private static final String TAG = "AESCrypt";

    //AESCrypt-ObjC uses CBC and PKCS7Padding
    private static final String AES_MODE = "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding";
    private static final String CHARSET = "UTF-8";

    //AESCrypt-ObjC uses SHA-256 (and so a 256-bit key)
    private static final String HASH_ALGORITHM = "SHA-256";

    //AESCrypt-ObjC uses blank IV (not the best security, but the aim here is compatibility)
    private static final byte[] ivBytes = {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};

    //togglable log option (please turn off in live!)
    public static boolean DEBUG_LOG_ENABLED = false;
    
    /**
     * Generates SHA256 hash of the password which is used as key
     *
     * @param password used to generated key
     * @return SHA256 of the password
     */
    private static SecretKeySpec generateKey(final String password) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
        final MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance(HASH_ALGORITHM);
        byte[] bytes = password.getBytes("UTF-8");
        digest.update(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
        byte[] key = digest.digest();

        logEx("SHA-256 key ", key);

        SecretKeySpec secretKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
        return secretKeySpec;
    }
    
    /**
     * Encrypt and encode message using 256-bit AES with key generated from password.
     *
     *
     * @param password used to generated key
     * @param message the thing you want to encrypt assumed String UTF-8
     * @return Base64 encoded CipherText
     * @throws GeneralSecurityException if problems occur during encryption
     */
    public static String encrypt(final String password, String message)
            throws GeneralSecurityException {

        try {
            final SecretKeySpec key = generateKey(password);

            logEx("message", message);

            byte[] cipherText = encrypt(key, ivBytes, message.getBytes(CHARSET));

            //NO_WRAP is important as was getting \n at the end
            String encoded = StringUtils.newStringUtf8(Base64.decodeBase64(cipherText));
            logEx("Base64.NO_WRAP", encoded);
            return encoded;
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            if (DEBUG_LOG_ENABLED)
                log.error( "UnsupportedEncodingException " + e.getStackTrace());
            throw new GeneralSecurityException(e);
        }
    }
    
    
    /**
     * More flexible AES encrypt that doesn't encode
     * @param key AES key typically 128, 192 or 256 bit
     * @param iv Initiation Vector
     * @param message in bytes (assumed it's already been decoded)
     * @return Encrypted cipher text (not encoded)
     * @throws GeneralSecurityException if something goes wrong during encryption
     */
    public static byte[] encrypt(final SecretKeySpec key, final byte[] iv, final byte[] message)
            throws GeneralSecurityException {
        final Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(AES_MODE);
        IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, ivSpec);
        byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(message);

        logEx("cipherText", cipherText);

        return cipherText;
    }


    /**
     * Decrypt and decode ciphertext using 256-bit AES with key generated from password
     *
     * @param password used to generated key
     * @param base64EncodedCipherText the encrpyted message encoded with base64
     * @return message in Plain text (String UTF-8)
     * @throws GeneralSecurityException if there's an issue decrypting
     */
    public static String decrypt(final String password, String base64EncodedCipherText)
            throws GeneralSecurityException {

        try {
            final SecretKeySpec key = generateKey(password);

            logEx("base64EncodedCipherText", base64EncodedCipherText);
            byte[] decodedCipherText = Base64.decodeBase64(base64EncodedCipherText);
            logEx("decodedCipherText", decodedCipherText);

            byte[] decryptedBytes = decrypt(key, ivBytes, decodedCipherText);

            logEx("decryptedBytes", decryptedBytes);
            String message = new String(decryptedBytes, CHARSET);
            logEx("message", message);


            return message;
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            if (DEBUG_LOG_ENABLED)
            	 log.error( "UnsupportedEncodingException " + e.getStackTrace());

            throw new GeneralSecurityException(e);
        }
    }


    /**
     * More flexible AES decrypt that doesn't encode
     *
     * @param key AES key typically 128, 192 or 256 bit
     * @param iv Initiation Vector
     * @param decodedCipherText in bytes (assumed it's already been decoded)
     * @return Decrypted message cipher text (not encoded)
     * @throws GeneralSecurityException if something goes wrong during encryption
     */
    public static byte[] decrypt(final SecretKeySpec key, final byte[] iv, final byte[] decodedCipherText)
            throws GeneralSecurityException {
            final Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(AES_MODE);
            IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, ivSpec);
            byte[] decryptedBytes = cipher.doFinal(decodedCipherText);

            logEx("decryptedBytes", decryptedBytes);

            return decryptedBytes;
    }
    

    private static void logEx(String what, byte[] bytes) {
        if (DEBUG_LOG_ENABLED)
        	 log.debug(TAG + what + "[" + bytes.length + "] [" + bytesToHex(bytes) + "]");
    }

    private static void logEx(String what, String value) {
        if (DEBUG_LOG_ENABLED)
            log.debug(TAG + what + "[" + value.length() + "] [" + value + "]");
    }


    /**
     * Converts byte array to hexidecimal useful for logging and fault finding
     * @param bytes
     * @return
     */
    private static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
        final char[] hexArray = {'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8',
                '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'};
        char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2];
        int v;
        for (int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++) {
            v = bytes[j] & 0xFF;
            hexChars[j * 2] = hexArray[v >>> 4];
            hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = hexArray[v & 0x0F];
        }
        return new String(hexChars);
    }

    private AESCrypt() {
    }
}