XDA has proved to be a great help when it comes to playing with your Android device, from giving us softwares that make developing easier and faster, to giving numerous ways to tweak the OS in simple ways. And among the most helpful of tools and softwares that make our lives easier is the APKtool which has been recently introduced. Modding, theming, tweaking; it all requires us to give commands to the Android device via the command prompt (cmd) on our pc, by connecting our device to it and by the help of the adb and fastboot files. You must already be familiar with this exhaustive process if you tried modding your android device. But for the inexperienced, it is beyond bars to know what the commands that will gear up your Android to utmost modification such as rooting, unlocking and flashing (obviously), so why do this when you have apktool?
Why Use APKtool?
With apktool, you can easily and decompile and recompile your desired apk files without going through all the hustle of searching up the commands online. It’s just a matter of clicks, no cmd! Plus, you don’t have to wait long hours for this little program to download and install. Just sit back and watch this compact 2.8 MB file fire up. This means, no OS getting held, no waiting for installations, no crashing, no need for extensive internet searching, and simple use. Only an amateur wouldn’t consider using this software, and trust me; you’re not an amateur if you’ve come to read here.
How to Operate APKtool?
As you can witness the simplicity of the program above; there are no complications in operating it like you have while doing it via cmd from your computer. After you’ve successfully downloaded and installed apktool from the link given at the end of this article open it up. Now, to get started with your modding, You can install your accustomed framework-res.apk by selecting the framework from the drop down option and hitting ‘install’, select your apk file you want to mod and hit ‘decompile’ to decompile, the decompiled apk will be located in ‘C:\AndroidApktool\apkname folder’. select your folder and hit ‘compile’ to compile your decompiled folder again, and the compiled file will be located at ’ C:\AndroidApktool\apkname\dist’. After you do these actions, you either end up succeeding or end up with an occurred error. But not to worry, you can fix all those errors up in the integrated Log section given below where the errors will be shown to you, to work it out the next time you decompile and recompile.
Note: To recompile what you’ve decompiled, you have to copy your AndroidManifest.xml and META-INF folder from your old apk file to your new compile one, or there is a chance you end up in bootloop.
By now you must be convinced about the simple use and reliability of android apktool, so waste no time and download this time saving software from
here.
