how to use apktool in php (linux)?

[mgh2211]

how to get apk file information
in php (linux)
?

[Ryszard Wiśniewski]

Run apktool using exec() function - exactly the same as you do from terminal.

[mghd]

can you send a source please!!!!!!!!!?????????????

[Ryszard Wiśniewski]

Source of apktool or do you mean example of usage from php?

[mghd]

php source for use apk tool

[Ryszard Wiśniewski]

I think you don't understand the problem. PHP example is just:

<?php

exec('apktool d file.apk');

?>

But first you have to install apktool on a server. And you won't be able to run apktool on most web hosting servers because you need Java.

[Steven]

Lol, I think they were insinuating that they wanted example usage (ie.
Write everything for them!) ;)

[nate]

I did something almost exactly like this, not using PHP because of its Swiss cheese security. Instead I used Dropbox and my VPS host since I have full root and could install Java.

Files get SCP'd or Dropbox synced up to a jailed user home folder on my VPS and a more escalated system account executes a script using incron to notify. Apktool runs and the output is put back into my Dropbox folder. 

All I do is upload an app up from my phone with Dropbox. On file system change, incron kicks off a script I wrote that strips out permissions, resigns it and syncs it back.

Here's a full write up I did with complete working code straight off my server. It's not PHP but you can figure it out like I did:

http://uncutandroid.com/2011/05/howto-hack-apps-on-the-go/

[Dipu Ratheesan]

Got this error while running apktool, but working fine in terminal, error occurred while calling this through browser. 

I: Baksmaling...

I: Loading resource table...

I: Loaded.

I: Decoding AndroidManifest.xml with resources...

W: Could not decode attr value, using undecoded value instead: ns=android, name=versionCode, value=0x00000001

W: Could not decode attr value, using undecoded value instead: ns=android, name=versionName, value=0x00000016

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

at java.io.Writer.write(Writer.java:157)

at brut.androlib.res.util.ExtMXSerializer.writeAttributeValue(ExtMXSerializer.java:38)

at org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer.attribute(MXSerializer.java:673)

at org.xmlpull.v1.wrapper.classic.XmlSerializerDelegate.attribute(XmlSerializerDelegate.java:106)

at org.xmlpull.v1.wrapper.classic.StaticXmlSerializerWrapper.writeStartTag(StaticXmlSerializerWrapper.java:267)

at org.xmlpull.v1.wrapper.classic.StaticXmlSerializerWrapper.event(StaticXmlSerializerWrapper.java:211)

at brut.androlib.res.decoder.XmlPullStreamDecoder$1.event(XmlPullStreamDecoder.java:80)

at brut.androlib.res.decoder.XmlPullStreamDecoder.decode(XmlPullStreamDecoder.java:130)

at brut.androlib.res.decoder.XmlPullStreamDecoder.decodeManifest(XmlPullStreamDecoder.java:144)

at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ResFileDecoder.decodeManifest(ResFileDecoder.java:131)

at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.decode(AndrolibResources.java:218)

at brut.androlib.Androlib.decodeResourcesFull(Androlib.java:115)

at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:114)

at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:146)

at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:77)