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I am new to Android development. I am using a x-platform development tool which builds and signs the APK for me. This tool has a bug and it does not generate APK’s with the version code I specify, all APK’s generated are version 1.0.
I would like to unpack the APK, edit the version code, and then resign and repackage it. It was signed using my keystore originally, so I have the keys needed to sign it again.
How can this be done?
It should be possible; previously I’ve changed an existing APK’s package name without access to the source.
However, you will probably need (and I don’t have any more specific guides to hand):
You need to unzip the APK, alter the (binary-packed)
AndroidManifest.xml, alter the checksum in theresources.arsc(I think) and then re-zip the APK.Actually, in searching for a couple of these resources, I came across
apktool, which sounds promising.