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Extracting and reading the manifest file

Extracting and reading the manifest file - iOS Tutorial

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Extracting and reading the manifest file

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- [Instructor] The file AndroidManifest.xml is used to describe the functionality and requirements of an Android application. And it's generated as part of the build process for that Android application. This is a compiled XML binary file and, to read it, we'll use a tool called Apktool. Let's download and install the tool from the website shown here. I'll firstly right-click on the Wrapper Script URL and download it. This downloads the APKtool batch file which makes it easy for us to call the tool. I'll then follow the link to the APKtool 2. And I'll download the latest JAR file, version 2.4.0. I'm in a command shell and I've copied the APKtool files into my testing directory. Let's make sure it's working. Okay, we're good to go. When doing mobile testing commercially, you'll usually be given the APK file from your customer. However, you may want to test an application from one of the Android stores and you'll need…

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