How to view the contents of an Android APK file?

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noob picture noob · Aug 30, 2010 · Viewed 151.3k times · Source

Is there a way to extract and view the content of an .apk file?

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DonGru picture DonGru · Aug 30, 2010

Actually the apk file is just a zip archive, so you can try to rename the file to theappname.apk.zip and extract it with any zip utility (e.g. 7zip).

The androidmanifest.xml file and the resources will be extracted and can be viewed whereas the source code is not in the package - just the compiled .dex file ("Dalvik Executable")

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