Problem with split apks (INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-2)

[kasnder]

Hello,

I'm trying to use ZipDiff for the Twitter app.

When downloading for an arm64 device from the German Google Play Store, this comes in 5 .apk files:

• base.apk
• split_config.arm64_v8a.apk
• split_config.de.apk
• split_config.en.apk
• split_config.xxhdpi.apk

Unfortunately, if I apply AndroidSDK#apksigner(ApkNormalized(AndroidSDK#apksigner(newZip))) to split_config.arm64_v8a.apk I get the following error when installing with adb install-multiple *.apk:

adb: failed to finalize session
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-2]

Installing works without problems if I only apply AndroidSDK#apksigner(newZip) to split_config.arm64_v8a.apk and AndroidSDK#apksigner(ApkNormalized(AndroidSDK#apksigner(newZip))) tothe other .apk files.

[kasnder]

I assume that libraries within split_config.arm64_v8a.apk are wrongly compressed or aligned after running ApkNormalized.

[kasnder]

Additionally, I cannot run ZipDiff on split_config.arm64_v8a.apk without running ApkNormalized.

Running ZipDiff split_config.arm64_v8a.apk split_config.arm64_v8a-modified.apk split_config.arm64_v8a.ZipDiff results in:

...
check ZipPatch result Byte By Byte Equal ERROR!
  (did newZip=AndroidSDK#apksigner(ApkNormalized(AndroidSDK#apksigner(newZip))) before running ZipDiff?)
...

[sisong]

the cmdline ApkNormalized version is 1.3.6?
you can make it by yourself:

$cd <ApkdiffPatch>
$make

I have't tested with split apks,
Can you email these 5 .apk files to me([email protected])?

[kasnder]

Oh, it's 1.3.5. I was using the tagged release from the webpage. I'll check again!

[sisong]

Possible attempt:

1. packed apk files to one *.apks (or *.aab) file , and run apksigner?
2. like bundletool , signed split apks

[sisong]

I Success!
I test Twritter split apks( base.apk split_config.arm64_v8a.apk split_config.de.apk split_config.en.apk split_config.xxhdpi.apk )
edit AndroidManifest.xml file in base.apk，change android:extractNativeLibs="false" to android:extractNativeLibs="true"
then all apks do ApkNormalized & AndroidSDK#apksigner
run: adb install-multiple base.apk split_config.arm64_v8a.apk split_config.de.apk split_config.en.apk split_config.xxhdpi.apk
result "Success", and the TWritter app can be run on Android.

[kasnder]

Thanks for clarifying! I really don't like the latest changes to the APK format by Google..

[sisong]

same don't like

[sisong]

now, this lib new version supported page-align uncompressed .so files.