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.
- Checkout Releases for the last prebuilt binary
chmod +x ACVPatcher
to make it executable
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.
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Adding permissions to AndroidManifest
$ acvpatcher --permission android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
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Adding a receiver to AndroidManifest
This example will add the AcvReceiver receiver tag with two intent filters (
calculate
andsnap
)$ acvpatcher --receiver tool.acv.AcvReceiver:tool.acv.calculate tool.acv.AcvReceiver:tool.acv.snap
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Rewritting DEX files
$ acvpatcher --class ./classes.dex ./classes2.dex
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>
ACVPatcher is built on top of QuestPatcher modules initially developed by @Lauriethefish