Does anyone have any stories to share involving apktool?
Random note: It's curious how the homepage and the linked repo are on GitHub but the binary downloads are served from bitbucket.
Random note: It's curious how the homepage and the linked repo are on GitHub but the binary downloads are served from bitbucket.
Using APKTool I managed to decompile the app, add some printf logging to figure out the issue, fix it in the Italian/more advanced one, merge it with the English one and rebuild it.
The only issue is that the signing key was lost too, so partners had to uninstall and reinstall, but nothing I could do about it.
Oh, and another time I cracked the in-app purchase for the password manager I was using on a spare Android device while my Lumia was in RMA (it had separate purchases for each platform). Of course I bought it once I let go of Windows Phone and moved to Android permanently.
Android has this really annoying feature where apps don't trust self-signed CA certs (but Chrome & webviews do, strangely). You either need to need to add it to the app's network_security_config.xml, or root the device and add it as a system CA.
I looked into using apktool as part of a pipeline to inject our self-signed CA as a custom trust anchor when customers uploaded their APK for testing. But in the end, we found it was easier and simpler to just add a the cert as a system CA on a custom rooted AVD.
That whole project really made me appreciate that no matter how shit I feel web dev is some days, at least I'm not an android developer.