Motivation

After having written my post on debugging with Eclipse and DDMS, I wanted to somehow automate those steps. And this is how ADUS got born.

Its basically only a BASH script ment to glue things together and make my life easier. Feel free to adapt it to your needs. Pull requests are highly welcome.

Requirements

• adus.sh
  • bash :)
• apktool
  • Java >= 1.7.x (link)
  • aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool) in $PATH (usually found in android-sdk/build-tools/*)
• signapk
  • no specific requirements
• dex2jar
  • no specific requirements

Installation

You can download/clone the package wherever you want and call ./adus.sh from there. Since the GIT repo is quite big (ca. 28M) you should download it only once and copy it to /opt/adus/. Make sure you adapt your $PATH to point to /opt/adus/adus.sh. Afterwards you should be able to call adus.sh system-wide.

Run

ADUS is very easy to use. Have a look at the available options:

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Usage: ./adus.sh <options>
Available options:
 -h                      Print this message
 -b <app_path>           Build new APK from source directory
 -d <app_path>           Dump APK to ./source
 -s <app_path>           Sign APK using test certificate
 -u <app_path>           Unpack APK to ./unpacked
 -x <dex_path>           Convert DEX to JAR
 -q                      Be quite. Deactivate verbosity.
 -0 <app_path>           Dump (-d) and unpack (-u) APK
 -1 <app_path>           Build (-b) and sign (-s)

Tested on ...

• Linux
• Windows 7
  • Using Git Bash

Can anyone confirm ADUS running on *BSD?

Examples

Unpack and dump APK

Given an APK ADUS will dump the contents to ./source using apktool. Afterwards it will unpack the APK (=ZIP file) to ./unpacked using unzip. The -0 command is actually a combo of -d and -u.

# ./adus.sh -0 FakeBanker.apk 
[2014-09-04 20:48:35] INFO: Dumping FakeBanker.apk to ./source ... 
I: Using Apktool 2.0.0-dirty on FakeBanker.apk
I: Loading resource table...
I: Loading resource table...
I: Decoding AndroidManifest.xml with resources...
I: Loading resource table from file: /home/victor/apktool/framework/1.apk
I: Regular manifest package...
I: Decoding file-resources...
I: Decoding values */* XMLs...
I: Baksmaling classes.dex...
I: Copying assets and libs...
I: Copying unknown files...
I: Copying original files...
[2014-09-04 20:48:39] INFO: Success!
[2014-09-04 20:48:39] INFO: Unpacking FakeBanker.apk to ./unpacked ... 
Archive:  FakeBanker.apk
signed by SignApk
  inflating: ./unpacked/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF  
  inflating: ./unpacked/META-INF/CERT.SF  
  inflating: ./unpacked/META-INF/CERT.RSA  
  inflating: ./unpacked/AndroidManifest.xml  
  inflating: ./unpacked/classes.dex  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/drawable-hdpi/ic_launcher1.png  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/drawable-hdpi/logo.png  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/drawable-ldpi/ic_launcher1.png  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/drawable-mdpi/ic_launcher1.png  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/drawable-xhdpi/ic_launcher1.png  
  inflating: ./unpacked/res/layout/actup.xml  
  inflating: ./unpacked/res/layout/main.xml  
  inflating: ./unpacked/res/layout/main2.xml  
  inflating: ./unpacked/res/menu/main.xml  
 extracting: ./unpacked/res/raw/blfs.key  
  inflating: ./unpacked/res/raw/config.cfg  
  inflating: ./unpacked/resources.arsc  
[2014-09-04 20:48:39] INFO: Success!

Build and sign new APK

ADUS will build a new APK from ./source and sign it using signapk. The -1 command consists of -b and -s.

./adus.sh -1 FakeBanker-NEW.apk
[2014-09-04 20:52:01] INFO: Building APK from ./source ... 

I: Using Apktool 2.0.0-dirty on source
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling smali folder into classes.dex...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
Warning: AndroidManifest.xml already defines debuggable (in http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android); using existing value in manifest.
I: Building apk file...
[2014-09-04 20:52:06] INFO: Success! FakeBanker-NEW.apk is your new APK.
[2014-09-04 20:52:06] INFO: Signing FakeBanker-NEW.apk ...
[2014-09-04 20:52:06] INFO: Success! FakeBanker-NEW.SIGNED.apk is your signed APK.

Convert dex to jar

Using dex2jar you'll be able to convert the classes.dex into a jar file.

./adus.sh -x unpacked/classes.dex
[2014-09-04 20:53:14] INFO: Converting unpacked/classes.dex to JAR ... 
dex2jar unpacked/classes.dex -> ./unpacked/classes-dex2jar.jar
[2014-09-04 20:53:17] INFO: Success! Converted file is at ./unpacked/classes-dex2jar.jar

License

Released under the MIT License. Check out License.md.