[TOOL] ApkSpy - view APK manifest on PC

[darkuni]

Great tool! Just ran across this - but I suffer from the same thing this guy does.

Works FINE if I open the tool first - then drag a file to it.

But it won't "associate" and "open" when double clicking.

Thoughts?

hi,ido when i double click apk files i get this error..running win7 x64
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[TTLucian]

Excelent app. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Fr3nZy]

Excellent App. Works great on organizing my mess of apks.
I've run into a problem though. Some apks error on rename because their names contain character that aren't allowed in filenames: /\?%*:|" <>
They need to be omitted or replaces. Don't forget about double and trailing spaces too.

ex: ST: Red Alert live wallpaper won't rename because of the :
WiFi Tether 3.1-beta11 *** BETA-VERSION *** won't rename because of the *

Edit: Noticed an issues with special character handling too: Soundhound ∞ -> SoundHound ∞_2.9.7

 

[Oberth]

Simple and effective

This is a great little app for dealing with large collection of apk's. Whenever I'm rolling a new release together and checking for updated version of the included apps this makes that job so much easier.

For nonstandard characters would it be possible to use a _ in place to allow a 'best as' renaming.

 

[mingolianbeef]

Nice

Sent from my HTC Evo 3D using XDA

 

[sahniana]

nice tool. is this open source? would love to see this moving forward

 

[psiev]

I installed android_spk-r18 ... aapt.exe is nowhere to be found.
am I missing something?

 

[hadoryukishi]

nice app.

it helps me find an apk which i need

 

[sahniana]

I installed android_spk-r18 ... aapt.exe is nowhere to be found.
am I missing something?

you can find aapt.exe in <android sdk folder>/platform-tools.

and btw,drag and drop apk to apkspy is working. but when is use double-click,error. i think it related to .apk file location,maybe too long or complicated,cant have spaces or etc...

 

[ww2916269]

Nice tool. I really love this tool. Is this an open source project? As it has some problem with Chinese character, I really want to fix this tiny bug.

 

[ido]

Thanks guys.

I might opensource in the near future, code is kinda messy atm (it was originally written in a day).

in any case, the unicode/special chars might be because aapt doesn't handle them. I need to check though.

I released a new ver with minor bug fixes.

 

[Not Again]

Cool Thanks.

Sent from my PG86100 using xda premium

 

[jaydude23]

Very helpful tool. Just downloaded it. Thanks for creating and sharing.

 

[Jarmezrocks]

Hey mate,

This is one of the most useful tools I now use on my PC. So thank you very much!

I am not sure what other users do with utilising this tool to its best capacity, but what I do is I have .apk files associated with the latest Winzip. I know a lot of people may groan when I say WinZip as it is not free and its there are plenty of other packages around that have superior compression methods etc, but i just want to set things straight here and mention that WinZip is the only archive/ compression application that allows for viewing res directories and displaying the PNG files inside without the user ever needing to decompile the apk.

This is especially handy for themeing. However if I associate your ApkSPY as the default application or visa versa; I have to go to open with and choose an application. It also restricts me when I double click to either only opening with Winzip Or ApkSpy.

I wanted both, so I have attached a copy of your latest version along with a Reg key for Window 7 that allows the users to maintain the default application for opening apks (I think in most cases this will be their archiver of choice or DroidExplorer), but their Windows 7 shell context menu has an option to "Open with ApkSPY". I also wanted to give the app an icon so I updated the .exe so it now has a little Spy dude as the icon. That's incase someone does want to make it their default application and they don't want to see the boring old "non-application default windows icon"
The standalone Icon is included in the attached zip as well. Feel free to add it to the main OP if you like?

Um if you for what ever reason want me to remove this post please send me a PM. I am not wanting to hijack the thread in anyway, just add what I found handy.

Hope this helps someone out.

James

 

[MadMax]

I have to say, this is a great tool, I have some friends with great art skills, and I will see about getting a logo made for you

 

[NaabKing]

Great app, but renaming should be diffrent i guess it should be: [InstallationAppName] v[AppVersion], example: ApkSpy v0.6.

 

[drcrazy91]

Can I install apk directly into my phone? or on PC?

thank u. nice tool

What does "Install APK " work for? Can I install apk directly into my phone? or on PC?
I can't figure it out.. how does it works.
Please explain me a littel.

 

[lesscro]

very great tool !

For fun !

 

[MAQ7]

good job m8 :good:

 

[alex26aly]

When I try to drag and drop any .apk file it gives me these error :

Missing AAPT.EXE, make sure in current directory or PATH restart ApkSpy
Usually you can find it in <android sdk folder>/platform-tools

What i'm doing wrong????Please help!