[UTIL][SEP 2, 2021] Apktool - Tool for reverse engineering apk files

Thebear j koss said:

how to sign apk using apktool - Google Search

yes,
i'm know how to search in google
but, this need a file - signapk.jar, that i cna't find....
thank!

a9381 said:

yes,
i'm know how to search in google
but, this need a file - signapk.jar, that i cna't find....
thank!

I decompiled a gcam port APK with APKTool 2.6.0. No Errors.
disabled signature check in the smali file to make it not crash on start.
Recompiled the APP and signed it. Again No Errors.

the app launches and i can give permissions in android, but directly after the permissions are granted, the app crashes and the viewfinder doesn't display an image either.

So there is a problem with the decompilation and recompilation. but i can't find the exact reason

todarkness said:

I decompiled a gcam port APK with APKTool 2.6.0. No Errors.
disabled signature check in the smali file to make it not crash on start.
Recompiled the APP and signed it. Again No Errors.

the app launches and i can give permissions in android, but directly after the permissions are granted, the app crashes and the viewfinder doesn't display an image either.

So there is a problem with the decompilation and recompilation. but i can't find the exact reason

Click to expand...

Need a log to see why it crashes.

Hello, i noticed your warning in the OP.
I'm new to playing around with decompiling apks and dont know much about piracy.
Were you warning about piracy because someone has the ability to remove google/ads from an Apk and recompile with this tool?

• If i were just wanting to test this software to see if i could remove google ads from an apk, ONLY for testing, could this tool do that? Remove ads by decompile and change ID (i forget which) then recompile?

Any idea how to sort this one out?

Compiling APK file... (Press ESC to cancel)

Executing command: java.exe -jar "C:\APK Easy Tool v1.59.2 Portable\Apktool\apktool_2.5.0.jar" b -f -o "C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\2-Recompiled APKs\Dialer.apk" "C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs\Dialer"

I: Using Apktool 2.5.0
I: Smaling smali folder into classes.dex...
I: Building resources...
W: C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs\Dialer\res\values\styles.xml:25: error: Resource entry AlertDialogTheme already has bag item android:textColorPrimary.
W: C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs\Dialer\res\values\styles.xml:24: Originally defined here.
W:
brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec (exit code = 1): [C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Temp\brut_util_Jar_44856206474251459993286310092082849034.tmp, p, --forced-package-id, 127, --min-sdk-version, 30, --target-sdk-version, 30, --version-code, 2900000, --version-name, 23.0, --no-version-vectors, -F, C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL4078868964259643472.tmp, -e, C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL4556495980648401949.tmp, -0, arsc, -I, C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\apktool\framework\1.apk, -S, C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs\Dialer\res, -M, C:\Users\Tim\OneDrive\Documents\APK Easy Tool\1-Decompiled APKs\Dialer\AndroidManifest.xml]
Compile failed