Exploring APK with aapt2: Android Resource Management Tool

Utilize aapt2 to examine APK contents, manifest information, resource configurations, permissions, and more. Explore various commands to extract valuable insights from Android application packages.

Print the contents of the AAPT2 Container (APC) generated fom compilation

aapt2 dump apc base.apk

Print information extracted from the manifest of the APK

aapt2 dump badging base.apk

Print every configuration used by a resource in the APK

aapt2 dump configurations base.apk

Print the permissions extracted from the manifest of the APK

aapt2 dump permissions base.apk

Print the contents of the resource table string pool in the APK

aapt2 dump strings base.apk

Print the parents of a style in an APK

aapt2 dump styleparents base.apk

Print the contents of the resource table from the APK

aapt2 dump resources base.apk

Print the chunk information of the compiled resources.arsc in the APK

aapt2 dump chunks base.apk

Print the string pool of a compiled xml in an APK

aapt dump xmltree base.apk AndroidManifest.xml > AndroidManifest.txt

Print the tree of a compiled xml in an APK

aapt2 dump xmltree base.apk

Print the resources of an APK

aapt2 dump overlayable base.apk