Android Chromium - Modifying the Extracted APK and Creating an APK File

[Suresh Arora]

I am working on android chromium. I am able to download the code and able to build the ChromeShell.apk. Now I am trying to extract the APK code, the I'm modifying it.  Will I be able to build a new APK file out of the modified APK code?  I am using Eclipse for this.

[Primiano Tucci]

The question is not very clear.

>  I am able to download the code and able to build the ChromeShell.apk

Good

> Now I am trying to extract the APK code, the I'm modifying it

What you mean with "APK code"? The APK doesn't contain any code. It contains, instead:

 - libcontent_shell_content_view.so (the compiled C/C++ code) 

 - chromium_apk_content_shell_apk.jar (the compiled Java code)

 - other stuff (resources, parkfiles)

There is no reasonable way to extract chromium code back from the APK, unless you want to adventure yourself into reverse engineering a binary, which sounds pointless if you have the original code.

> Will I be able to build a new APK file out of the modified APK code? 

No, you have to rebuild it. This is the way you make changes :-)

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Suresh Arora <suresha...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am working on android chromium. I am able to download the code and able to build the ChromeShell.apk. Now I am trying to extract the APK code, the I'm modifying it.  Will I be able to build a new APK file out of the modified APK code?  I am using Eclipse for this.

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