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ACVPatcher patches AndroidManifest and rewrites DEX files inside an APK not touching resources (unlike apktool)

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ACVPatcher

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ACVPatcher is a CLI tool to patch AndroidManifest and DEX classes inside an APK without reassembling resources. ACVPatcher is a replacement of Apktool for the ACVTool purpuses to improve its repackaging success rate.

Installation

  • Checkout Releases for the last prebuilt binary
  • chmod +x ACVPatcher to make it executable

Usage

ACVPatcher updates DEX classes and/or AndroidManifest inside the APK file. ACVPatcher may insert new permissions, a broadcast receiver, and instrumentation tag into AndroidManifest through corresponding options at once. Finally, this APK file gets signed and zip aligned.

  • Adding permissions to AndroidManifest

    $ acvpatcher --permission android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Adding a receiver to AndroidManifest

    This example will add the AcvReceiver receiver tag with two intent filters (calculate and snap)

    $ acvpatcher --receiver tool.acv.AcvReceiver:tool.acv.calculate tool.acv.AcvReceiver:tool.acv.snap
  • Rewritting DEX files

    $ acvpatcher --class ./classes.dex ./classes2.dex

AndroidManifest Patching

Here is an example of XML added to patched AndroidManifest

<manifest ...>
    ...
<application>
    ...
    <receiver
        android:name="tool.acv.AcvReceiver"
        android:enabled="true"
        android:exported="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="tool.acv.snap" />
            <action android:name="tool.acv.calculate" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>
</application>
    <instrumentation
        android:name="tool.acv.AcvInstrumentation"
        android:targetPackage="package.name" />
    <uses-permission
        android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
</manifest>

Acknowledgement

ACVPatcher is built on top of QuestPatcher modules initially developed by @Lauriethefish

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