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#Note recompile with for details apk
Once the original APK package been uninstalled, install the new package to your phone using ADB. Before installing, the original package on your phone has to be uninstalled. The APK package is now ready to be installed onto your phone. Next, align the final APK package using zipalign. $ jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore testkey.keystore testkey Sign the APK with the generated private key using jarsigner. If you have just generated the key, ignore this step. If you are reusing the keys used for signing, copy the key to the work directory. Note that the file has been renamed from “ ” to “ ” after copying. Copy the new APK to the root of the work directory. Recompile the decompiled APK using Apktool by specifying the app path, which is the out directory.Īpktool will write the output APK file to out/dist directory. Always try to use the same key to sign apps to minimise any key related issues cropping up. Once the key has been generated, save the key file “ testkey.keystore” so that it can be reused in future. Generating 1,024 bit RSA key pair and self-signed certificate (SHA256withRSA) with a validity of 10,000 daysįor: CN=Android, OU=Android, O=Android, L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US Is CN=Android, OU=Android, O=Android, L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US correct?
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What is the two-letter country code for this unit? What is the name of your State or Province? What is the name of your City or Locality? What is the name of your organizational unit? $ keytool -genkey -v -keystore testkey.keystore -alias testkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -validity 10000
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Android will not allow an app to be updated if the keys are different.
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To update an app, the new version of the app must be signed using the same key. This will only need to be done once and the key can be reused in the future. Now, we will need to generate keys to sign the APK.
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You are now free to edit the AndroidManifest.xml file, resource files or the smali files based on your requirements. Now, decompile the APK using Apktool with the following syntax.Īpktool will decompile the APK file and write the output to a sub directory called out. Connect your Android mobile phone to your computer’s USB and run the following ADB command and specify the package of the APK. Once you have determined the package name for the APK, get the path to the APK on your phone using Android ADB. For WhatsApp, the URL is and the package name can be found after the “ id=” field. We can get the package name from the app’s Google Play Store web URL. For example, WhatsApp package name is “ com.whatsapp“. To extract the APK file, we need to know the package name. All our work will be done within a directory called work within your home directory.īefore we decompile an APK file, we need to extract the file from the phone. To install Apktool, refer to the Apktool install guide.īefore proceeding further, make sure that the PATH environment variable includes the Java SDK, Android SDK and Apktool binaries. Installing the tools are quite straight forward, except maybe for Apktool. This article will not cover the installation of the tools mentioned above.
