[UTIL][JAN 20, 2024] Apktool - Tool for reverse engineering apk files

Spannaa · Mar 23, 2018

endorfina_pl said:
with -r flag i can decompile change picture and recompile again but then when im install and run app stopped...
:crying:

Change picture? - Thought you'd sorted that.

android

rotect is the killer.

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endorfina_pl · Mar 23, 2018

Spannaa said:
Change picture? - Thought you'd sorted that.

androidrotect is the killer.

Lol - XDA Labs with :&p

I make car install (nexus 7 2013) and i want change this:
https://i.imgur.com/1UQKuKs.jpg
to this:
https://i.imgur.com/PgVktFq.jpg

OMJ · Mar 23, 2018

endorfina_pl said:
I make car install (nexus 7 2013) and i want change this:
https://i.imgur.com/1UQKuKs.jpg
to this:
https://i.imgur.com/PgVktFq.jpg

have u tried using 7zip & simply dragging the new png into the original apk in the correct folder w/ correct name?

endorfina_pl · Mar 23, 2018

yes, im try and dont work ?

hillz · Mar 27, 2018

Guys I'm getting this error when trying to decompile an apk "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException"

Code:

[linux@x apk]$ apktool d myapp.apk 
I: Using Apktool 2.3.1 on myapp.apk 
I: Loading resource table...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
        at java.nio.ByteBuffer.wrap(ByteBuffer.java:375)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.decodeString(StringBlock.java:297)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.getString(StringBlock.java:110)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.getHTML(StringBlock.java:126)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readValue(ARSCDecoder.java:341)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readEntryData(ARSCDecoder.java:257)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableType(ARSCDecoder.java:233)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableTypeSpec(ARSCDecoder.java:156)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTablePackage(ARSCDecoder.java:118)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableHeader(ARSCDecoder.java:80)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:47)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:599)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:73)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:65)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.getResTable(Androlib.java:68)
        at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.setTargetSdkVersion(ApkDecoder.java:228)
        at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:118)
        at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:163)
        at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:72)

You can download the app here https://www.dropbox.com/s/fas9ni28tpt9gzx/myapp.apk?dl=0
How do I solve this ?

Ibuprophen · Mar 27, 2018

hillz said:
Guys I'm getting this error when trying to decompile an apk...

Try using one of the previous Apktool.jar releases and see if it provides the same results after decompiling...

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hillz · Mar 28, 2018

Ibuprophen said:
Try using one of the previous Apktool.jar releases and see if it provides the same results after decompiling...

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it provides the same results, can you please try decoding it for me ?

Spannaa · Mar 28, 2018

hillz said:

Guys I'm getting this error when trying to decompile an apk "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException"

Code:

[linux@x apk]$ apktool d myapp.apk 
I: Using Apktool 2.3.1 on myapp.apk 
I: Loading resource table...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
        at java.nio.ByteBuffer.wrap(ByteBuffer.java:375)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.decodeString(StringBlock.java:297)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.getString(StringBlock.java:110)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.getHTML(StringBlock.java:126)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readValue(ARSCDecoder.java:341)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readEntryData(ARSCDecoder.java:257)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableType(ARSCDecoder.java:233)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableTypeSpec(ARSCDecoder.java:156)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTablePackage(ARSCDecoder.java:118)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableHeader(ARSCDecoder.java:80)
        at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:47)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:599)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:73)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:65)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.getResTable(Androlib.java:68)
        at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.setTargetSdkVersion(ApkDecoder.java:228)
        at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:118)
        at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:163)
        at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:72)

You can download the app here https://www.dropbox.com/s/fas9ni28tpt9gzx/myapp.apk?dl=0
How do I solve this ?

Same error here with apktool 2.3.1 & a newly built apktool 2.3.2 snapshot.

If you just want to see what's inside the Lazada apk, JADX can read most of the resources.

djdarkknight96 · Mar 28, 2018

I'm seeing an odd issue decompiling Samsung Oreo apk's. The layouts aren't decompiling correctly. See screenshots. V21 v11 and v26 missing but the decompiled layouts folder has more layouts then original. So I'm assuming it's merging them to one layout.

First screenshots left decompiled right apk extracted layouts.

Other screen shows more layouts in decompiled then original.

Anyone else see this? Apk tool 224

Thebear j koss · Mar 28, 2018

djdarkknight96 said:
I'm seeing an odd issue decompiling Samsung Oreo apk's. The layouts aren't decompiling correctly. See screenshots. V21 v11 and v26 missing but the decompiled layouts folder has more layouts then original. So I'm assuming it's merging them to one layout.

First screenshots left decompiled right apk extracted layouts.

Other screen shows more layouts in decompiled then original.

Anyone else see this? Apk tool 224

Stop theming samsung. Lol

Sent from my Moto G5S Plus using Thebear Blue XDA Labs

edzamber · Mar 29, 2018

Hi all,

Maybe someone have an idea...

I tryed to decompil last Playstore 9.4.18 with AOSP framework 9.0 api 28 and original signature.

No problem, i make changes into ressources.arsc, recompil perfectly.

But my apk is corrupted. If i try to Remove or add something in recompiled apk with 7zip,i have "non implemented" pop-up.

My drawables Folders as drawable-hdpi-v4 in original apk are rename drawable-hdpi and i have a FC.

I have only modify values-fr.

My File res/drawable-xxhdpi/drawer_shadow.9.png is present ...

Here my FC log :

Code:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.android.vending, PID: 12137
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.activities.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class com.google.android.finsky.layout.play.FinskyDrawerLayout
  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap14(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)
  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class com.google.android.finsky.layout.play.FinskyDrawerLayout
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class com.google.android.finsky.layout.play.FinskyDrawerLayout
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance0(Native Method)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.support.v7.app.aq.b(SourceFile:77)
  at android.support.v7.app.aa.setContentView(SourceFile:21)
  at com.google.android.finsky.activities.MainActivity.onCreate(SourceFile:30)
  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java)
  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap14(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)
  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Drawable com.android.vending:drawable/drawer_shadow with resource ID #0x7f0800cc
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File res/drawable-xxhdpi/drawer_shadow.9.png from drawable resource ID #0x7f0800cc
  at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawableForCookie(ResourcesImpl.java)
  at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawable(ResourcesImpl.java)
  at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java)
  at android.content.Context.getDrawable(Context.java)
  at android.support.v4.content.d.a(SourceFile:16)
  at com.google.android.play.drawer.g.<initSourceFile:7)
  at com.google.android.finsky.layout.play.FinskyDrawerLayout.<initSourceFile:3)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance0(Native Method)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java)

Here AOSP framework 9.0 if someone want to test...

https://www.mediafire.com/download/dgvmdq6jc861nud

Thebear j koss · Mar 30, 2018

edzamber said:
Hi all,

Maybe someone have an idea...

I tryed to decompil last Playstore 9.4.18 with AOSP framework 9.0 api 28 and original signature.

No problem, i make changes into ressources.arsc, recompil perfectly.

But my apk is corrupted. If i try to Remove or add something in recompiled apk with 7zip,i have "non implemented" pop-up.

My drawables Folders as drawable-hdpi-v4 in original apk are rename drawable-hdpi and i have a FC.

I have only modify values-fr.

My File res/drawable-xxhdpi/drawer_shadow.9.png is present ...

Here my FC log :

Here AOSP framework 9.0 if someone want to test...

https://www.mediafire.com/download/dgvmdq6jc861nud

What happens with no changes? Does it build and install? Are you trying to change that drawer shadow? From the log it looks like it is reading 2 versions of that resource. Do you have that as an xml or color as well as the png somewhere?

Sent from my Moto G5S Plus using Thebear Blue XDA Labs

edzamber · Mar 30, 2018

Thebear j koss said:
What happens with no changes? Does it build and install? Are you trying to change that drawer shadow? From the log it looks like it is reading 2 versions of that resource. Do you have that as an xml or color as well as the png somewhere?

If i decompil and recompil without any changes, its the same problem... I have look about drawer shadow
with textscrawler but nothing match except png. I Wonder if there is not a security protection from Google in New Playstore 9.4.18. I havn't Any issue with 9.2.32.

Ibuprophen · Mar 30, 2018

edzamber said:
If i decompil and recompil without any changes, its the same problem... I have look about drawer shadow with textscrawler but nothing match except png. I Wonder if there is not a security protection from Google in New Playstore 9.4.18. I havn't Any issue with 9.2.32.

To be honest...

I know something is different with the newer Play Store because I use an older version and, until recently, I was able to submit feedback and now I can't. Everything else works still but, that.

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realtebo · Apr 4, 2018

Which version is right for Xiaomi Mi A1?

Sorry wrong thread

iBotPeaches · Apr 6, 2018

Time for my ever so-often update for the crowd here. This morning I merged a feature that fixed a Windows issue with commands becoming too long. This happens with applications built by Unity (and others), as assets are frequently stored or compressed which Apktool needs to know about. Apktool then passes a command to aapt which is sometimes upwards of 3,000 characters in length. Windows is the only operating system that has a problem about this. I did a solid amount of research (#1 / #2 / #3) in hopes to "stage" the steps that aapt does. This would allow Windows to work around the small limitation it has when it comes to commands.

I ended up building my own "apk" builder, which was nothing more than a glorified .zip creator. It took compression type into account when adding files into the application. The problem is that you can't modify the compression type of a file in a zip easily using only aapt. The options are basically, remove that file and then re-add it with the compression type you prefer. So if I accidentally built the application with a compressed "ic_sysbar_back_carmode.webp" file, then I needed to remove that file before I attempted adding it again in the STORED format. This took some engineering, hence why the pull request ended up changing a good deal of code. I basically don't add files to the application that I intend to add manually without compression. It finally worked and I was excited, it passed all testing and was merged.

Unfortunately, success was short-lived. As a side affect of now storing the entire directory path of the file, we included the directory the asset in question was from. In the example above this was "SystemUI/res/drawable-ldrtl-xxhdpi-v4/ic_sysbar_back_carmode.webp".

Apktool works by decoding the resources.arsc which leads to decoding each configuration in the application and finding resources in that configuration. We can see that the configuration above is "ldrtl-xxhdpi-v4", but aapt and by extension Apktool don't see the "v4" portion.

➜ Bug1761 aapt d configurations SystemUI.apk | grep 'ldrtl-xxxhdpi'
ldrtl-xxxhdpi

This is because "v4" is an implicit sdk version added by the aapt binary. No one building this example application added that qualifier, it was automatic. Here comes the problem. The 56 byte header for that qualifier does not list anything about an SDK version. It only tells me "ldtrl" and "xxhdpi", if the qualifiers used were from API21 like "notround", then its obvious to know a SDK level should be added. This qualifier was added by aapt/aapt2 because it scanned a massive hardcoded list of attributes in order to determine what qualifier that resource should be under. It actually does this crazy thing and "strip" resources to versioned qualifiers on its own. The long story is Apktool does not read the file (AXML) to determine the attributes used, so it cannot determine this. It might be able too in the future, but Java is not blazing speed low level C++. It would have to use like an XML reader (PullParser) to read each attribute. It therefore, currently, drops those version qualifiers unless they were explicitly provided. This means an uncompressed asset is recorded in file-system, but then the qualifier processed file-path is different (missing the implicit version qualifier).

This means my patch broke lots of applications (None of which that were in testing). This caused errors like

java.io.FileNotFoundException: SystemUI/res/drawable-ldrtl-xxhdpi-v4/ic_sysbar_back_carmode.webp (No such file or directory)

So I had to revert the fix. This means Windows support for large application is still broken. It means that version v2.3.2 will have a release this weekend, but not with all the intended features I hoped. I apologize and we will fix these in time.

iBotPeaches · Apr 7, 2018

A new version has been released!

v2.3.2 (Released April, 7, 2018)

[#1742] - Android P Preview Support

[#1689] - Initial support for rebuilding with aapt2 binary

[#1730] - Fixed issue with application with empty resources.arsc file

[#1703] - Fixed issue with root depth kotlin folder

[#1741] - Fixed building Apktool on Windows.

Added warning if application is non-zero typeIdOffset is discovered.

Update to baksmali v2.2.2

Support for treating additional photo extensions as raw (m4a)

Prevent temporary BRUT files from clogging temp directories.

Download: https://bitbucket.org/iBotPeaches/apktool/downloads/apktool_2.3.2.jar
md5 - 953ed8a553becac4e713d1073912f15f
sha256 - 648dba910d49365d78665f7060935802f4187d5529064e16caf34eee06cb5207

Details of Release: https://connortumbleson.com/2018/04/07/apktool-v2-3-2-released/

danyldft · Apr 7, 2018

iBotPeaches said:
A new version has been released!

v2.3.2 (Released April, 7, 2018)

Download: https://bitbucket.org/iBotPeaches/apktool/downloads/apktool_2.3.2.jar
md5 - 953ed8a553becac4e713d1073912f15f
sha256 - 648dba910d49365d78665f7060935802f4187d5529064e16caf34eee06cb5207

Details of Release: https://connortumbleson.com/2018/04/07/apktool-v2-3-2-released/

Thanks for your great work

Enviado desde mi ZP951 mediante Tapatalk

kos25k · Apr 8, 2018

hello and happy Easter!Newbie here.(to be honest I never used apktool) So i'll tell my story and I would be really very thankful if someone could help me.So,I bought a prerooted Vorke Z6 tv box.But the problem is that the tv app from my provider that I pay monthly,doesn't run cause it detects root.I tryied rootcloack xposed module but it doesn't work.The decoder is on my father on the 1st floor so I can only use the app to watch tv.So I would love a kindful dude to decompile my app not to detect root.or at least someone to tell me a working method to do myself.Here is my app.I hope for help.Thanks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQ4ThmKHkz9tucgIpDj1OXMUVVNLxd8M/view?usp=drivesdk

djdarkknight96 · Apr 8, 2018

kos25k said:
hello and happy Easter!Newbie here.(to be honest I never used apktool) So i'll tell my story and I would be really very thankful if someone could help me.So,I bought a prerooted Vorke Z6 tv box.But the problem is that the tv app from my provider that I pay monthly,doesn't run cause it detects root.I tryied rootcloack xposed module but it doesn't work.The decoder is on my father on the 1st floor so I can only use the app to watch tv.So I would love a kindful dude to decompile my app not to detect root.or at least someone to tell me a working method to do myself.Here is my app.I hope for help.Thanks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQ4ThmKHkz9tucgIpDj1OXMUVVNLxd8M/view?usp=drivesdk

There is no guide or anything to fix this, you need to hide root in the system. Magisk and SuperSU can do this already. Try using one of those to root if possible. Otherwise you might be stuck.

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