iBotPeaches/Apktool

A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

steven 'haji' hajducko

@sjmh

Wasn't sure if there was an apktool.yml option for it or if I just need to mess with the manifest manually

Hax4us

@Hax4us

@iBotPeaches I decompiled an app by apktool d -f -r --force-manifest app.apk -o app and then again recompiled using apktool b -a $(which aapt) app -o app2.apk and finally I unzipped the recompiled app unzip app2.apk and I found that AndroidManifest.xml was not recompiled means it is still in text format

Idk What is happening

And even there was no error while recompiling

Borja

@Stoo0rmq

hi there! I am having some problems trying to recompile

and apparently it might be because of folders containing spaces, can it be?

Using the latest version btw :)

Adrian Palmquist

@adrianpalmquist

Hello, I'm trying to debug an app that uses kotliin coroutines. I have decompiled the apk, modified the manifest to make it debuggable, recompiled it, signed it and installed to my device but everytime Dispatchers is called an exception is thrown with "Module with the Main dispatcher is missing. Add dependency providing the Main dispatcher, e.g. 'kotlinx-coroutines-android'"

has anyone else had a similar problem?

Žan Skamljič

@zskamljic_gitlab

Has anyone tried using apktool with split-apks (installed via android app bundles)? I've rebuilt and re-signed all split apks and tried to install them using "adb install-multiple", but it never completes, reason seems to be something with the native libraries

Gabriel Frangiosa

@GabrielFrangio1_twitter

When I try to run the apktool.bat it comes up with "Error: Unable to access jarfile c:\windows\apktool.jar" Can someone please help me.

Ajinkya Kohokade

@ajinkya-open

can anyone help me with apktool

i had decompiled the code, then edited smali file, then again build it, but it showing the error , surrupt package while install

lolno

@JustANormalRobloxPlayer

why does apktool not show progress when decompiling anymore?

Rich

@dillrich

anyone there?

all I did was rebuild tinder and the app crashes when I launch it on nexus 6P. Logcat shows this error: "java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.tinder/com.tinder.activities.LoginActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #4: Binary XML file line #4: Error inflating class ImageView"

Rich

@dillrich

still getting runtime error using 2.4.1 snapshot

Rich

@dillrich

well, tinder 10.4.2 can go through the dissasemble, reassemble, etc. using apktool 2.4.1 and successfully runs on phone. weird runtime error after pusing tinder 10.12.0 through apktool

Johan Vikström

@jvikstrom

Hey, so I want to add frida (need to circumvent ssl pinning in an app, following this https://koz.io/using-frida-on-android-without-root/ )
But when I've decompiled the app I can't find a lib subfolder so what I tried was to mkdir lib/ and put the frida .so in there, but when I've recompiled the app crashes I assume I don't add the .so correctly)
Worth to note is that I use the -r -f flags because otherwise I can't rebuild it

I've got no idea how to even start debugging this, I tried to use adb logcat and grep for the apk but it doesn't mention what kind of error happens.

Rich

@dillrich

Johan -- why are you trying to manually adding a .so?

Johan Vikström

@jvikstrom

I can do it some other way?

Rich

@dillrich

Johan -- why not just run the app on a rooted machine (use magisk for android)

JaredTheWolf

@JaredTheWolf

Hey, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm adding NfcNci to the system of this device without building the system from source. As such, NfcNci is signed using my own keys and fails the chain of trust. I'm looking for a tool I found not long ago on GitHub that lists sig dependencies. Does anyone know what this tool is called? I've lost the link.

(yes, it's slightly off-topic, but will be relevant later when I'm reverse engineering other system apps like ClockworkLauncher)

MohammedIbrahimm

@MohammedIbrahimm

framework-res decompiles normall but cannot be recompiled, an suggestion ?

AERenoir

@whiteangel123

Pardon me if I'm kinda dumb. There's this online-based app (as in to actally run the game you need internet) that i used to be able to debug using Chrome inspect while it's running. but after an update where it demands Android 5 to run, it no longer shows in the inspect. Can the apk be modified to allow the app to run while being debugged like previously?

AERenoir

@whiteangel123

Is it possible to decompile, and then enable debug and recompile it?

Louison

@LouisonGitzinger

Hi there, I'm looking a bit deeper in Apktool to understand better how resources are handled during build.
I found the ROADMAP.md file which seems to give a bit more detail on intentions.

My question is straightforward: is it possible to add a given resource to a decoded apk, reference it into smali code and then recompile it ?

Felipe

@SrKurama

Hi! I can use apktool in Windows PowerShell?

Hax4us

@Hax4us

iBotPeaches/Apktool#1699

Any progress?

sanjeshes

@sanjeshes

I wonder if anyone can shed light on this. I decompiled and recompiled an apk (myCANAL) without any changes using apktool. The recompiled apk works perfectly on androidtv OS but on android phone/ tablet it hangs on the splash screen. The original apk works on both platforms.

Rich

@dillrich

Hey what is the timeline for releasing the 2.4.1? Having issues with tinder version 10_7_0. Getting Android Runtime errors. And used the latest version of apktool 2.4.0

Mohammed Najeeb

@m.najeeb_gitlab

How I can add more features to APKEasy tool GUI ?? is there any open source for this GUI?

Rich

@dillrich

Any word on the next release update?

Vioxini

@Vioxini

Hello. I would like to contribute with the project. Could you point me out where is the internal work at? Especially I would like to fix the problem of uncompiled code with try ... catch structures. Thank you.

DrHackschnitzel

@DrHackschnitzel

Hey Guys, i tried to decompile and compile an app with apktool and i get lots of errors like
AndroidManifest.xml:43: error: No resource identifier found for attribute 'requestLegacyExternalStorage' in package 'android'

i tried the latest jar file of apk tool. Is there any plan when the apk tool is working?