Aapt

Overview

AAPT is a Java library for Android assets manipulation, it supports read and write resource files. It also provides command line tools.

Getting Started

Using command line

• Dump Resource Table

  $ java -jar ./target/aapt-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar dump resources resources.arsc
  

• Dump String Pool

  $ java -jar ./target/aapt-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar dump strings resources.arsc
  

• Dump XML

  $ java -jar ./target/aapt-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar dump xml AndroidManifest.xml
  

Using library

• Dump Resource Table

  ChunkParser parser = new ChunkParser();
  

parser.parse("resources.arsc").accept(new ResourceTableVisitor(System.out, true));
```

• Dump String Pool

  ChunkParser parser = new ChunkParser();
  

parser.parse("resources.arsc").accept(new StringPoolVisitor(System.out, true)); ```

• Dump XML

  ChunkParser parser = new ChunkParser();
  

parser.parse("AndroidManifest.xml").accept(new XmlVisitor(System.out, true)); ```

• Write Resource Table

  ChunkParser parser = new ChunkParser();
  ResourceTable arsc = parser.parse("resources.arsc");
  arsc.purge(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); // retain the specified index of strings 
  
  ChunkOutputStream cos = new ChunkOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("resources.arsc.bak"));
  cos.write(arsc);
  cos.close();
  

• Parse & Generate Resource Symbols

  SymbolParser parser = new SymbolParser();
  Symbols symbols = parser.parse("R.txt");
  Aapt.generateR("R.java", "com.example", symbols);
  

• Inspect APK

  ApkFile apk = new ApkFile("app.apk");
  Dex main = apk.getMainDex();
  Iterable<Dex> dexes = apk.dexes();
  Iterable<String> classes = apk.classes();
  Xml manifest = apk.getAndroidManifest();
  ResourceTable table = apk.getResourceTable();
  

Download

AAPT library is available on Maven Central Repository

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sdklite</groupId>
  <artifactId>aapt</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'com.sdklite:aapt:0.0.1'

API Doc

Please see http://aapt.sdklite.com.