[Android-tools-devel] Bug#824930: Bug#824930: Bug#824930: apktool: creates directories and an empty 1.apk file in $HOME

[Chirayu Desai]

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 21.05.2016 um 14:38 schrieb Paul Wise:
>> Package: apktool
>> Version: 2.1.1+dfsg-1
>> Severity: normal
>> Usertags: cruft
>>
>> For some reason apktool seems to think it is appropriate to create
>> files in my home directory even though I didn't give permission.
>
> [...]
>
> This is intentional but I must admit I don't like it too. Normally
> apktool copies the framework files to this directory or, if it is not
> available, to java.io.tmpdir. We probably could change that to
> ~/.apktool or ~/.local/share/apktool. Thoughts?
>
> https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/documentation/#framework-files
>
> However before you can decode apk files you need to install those
> framework files.
>
> Question to team members:
>
> Are they included in src:android-platform-frameworks-base or can we make
> them available somehow?
>From what I can tell by looking at the source, they aren't.
However, it can be easily made available given that
'framework-res.apk' is a "basic" package with just resources.

A one-line command
`aapt package -x -M core/res/AndroidManifest.xml  -S core/res/res -A
core/res/assets -F framework-res.apk`
makes an apk which apktool happily installs.
It worked with a random apk I had lying around.

Note: The debian aapt package didn't work, I would get a "
aapt: tools/aapt/Images.cpp:811: void
checkNinePatchSerialization(android::Res_png_9patch*, void*):
Assertion `outPatch->getXDivs()[i] == inPatch->getXDivs()[i]' failed.
aapt: tools/aapt/Images.cpp:811: void
checkNinePatchSerialization(android::Res_png_9patch*, void*):
Assertion `outPatch->getXDivs()[i] == inPatch->getXDivs()[i]' failed.
aapt: tools/aapt/Images.cpp:811: void
checkNinePatchSerialization(android::Res_png_9patch*, void*):
Assertion `outPatch->getXDivs()[i] == inPatch->getXDivs()[i]' failed.
" error when trying to run the same command with that.
Installed version is: 1:6.0.1+r16-1+b1

I wasn't able to build it from source either, with a complaint about
missing expat.h, though that might be the configuration of my local
system.
I'll investigate those and then properly file bug reports afterwards.

Till then, I used the prebuilt binaries google distributes for testing
the compile.

>
> The original apktool.jar embeds framework-res.apk from the Android Open
> Source Project but they are not part of apktool's sources.
>
> This bug is also related to
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/824933
>
> Markus
>
>
>
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