Extracting Android .apk and reading contents of XML file in res/layout

Question

I am trying to reverse engineer an existing android app and understand how a particular UI is constructed. I\'ve found that I can rename the apk to zip and view some of the

Answer 1

Create a new folder and put the .apk file which you want to decode into that.

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Open cmd then navigate to the root directory of APKtool and type the following command:

apktool d myApp.apk 

(where myApp.apk is the filename that you want to decode)

now you get a file folder in that folder and can easily read the apk's xml files.

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