Apktool: Manifest not compile

[ghost]

Information

1. Apktool Version (apktool -2.3.1) -
2. Operating System (Windows) -
3. APK From? (Other) -

Hello, i decode apk with new option,
apktool.jar d -s -r --force-manifest test.apk

and after change manifest and build with command
apktool.jar b D:\\test

app build success, manifest not compile,
how can i compile manifest ?

[iBotPeaches]

There is no support to individually compile/build an AndroidManifest.xml file. You can currently decode it (as-is), but you cannot build just that file.

This would be a feature request, which might not be possible as resources would be in the compiled state and thus not able to be read the resources needed for building a manifest file. Let me look into it.

[iBotPeaches]

Not possible without some changes to the codebase. Moving to Feature Request

[viniciusmarangoni]

I have this use case too. Will be nice if this feature be implemented.

[encoderlee]

it's very nice if this feature be implemented, most of the time we only want to add android:debuggable="true" in to "application" label

[SaavdhaanCyber]

Any progress ? @iBotPeaches

[iBotPeaches]

@lkdevil Sorry no progress. Bugs tend to get priority over features and I have about 150 of them.

[iBotPeaches]

This is not possible and won't be. Apktool needs to decode resources, otherwise we will have resourceIds everywhere and that won't work. Sorry.

Closing.