pyaxml 0.0.3

Manipulate AXML file and create one from scratch

README

GENERAL INFO

Project: Library to modify AXML file
Contributors: MadSquirrel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Version: v1.0
Date: 12-08-23

GOAL

PyAxml is a full python tool to play with AXML (Android XML) files. This tool is useful to decode and encode AXML files and manipulate AXML files over a Protocol Buffers object. It is designed to work with Python 3 only. Some examples of the use of the tool is provided with the project:

• copymanifest.py that allow to decode and reencode the original file
• replace_activity_name.py to change the name an activity and replace by an other

If you want to see more example you can dig more on the project apkpatcher that use this library to add some useful permission and inject a library inside the target application.

To have a better understanding about how is composed the AXML format a graphic is associated in drawio and svg format: format.drawio, format.drawio.svg

USAGE

You can use 2 samples:

$ python copymanifest.py code/tata2.xml test.xml

to simply copy the AXML file to test.xml with reencoding

The second sample can replace the name of an activity inside an AndroidManifest.xml:

$ androaxml.py code/tata2.xml
  <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" compileSdkVersion="30" compileSdkVersionCodename="11" package="exploit.intent" platformBuildVersionCode="30" platformBuildVersionName="11">
    <application>
      <activity android:name="app.activity"/>
    </application>
  </manifest>
$ python replace_activity_name.py code/tata2.xml test.xml app.activity app.test
$ androaxml.py test.xml 
  <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" compileSdkVersion="30" compileSdkVersionCodename="11" package="exploit.intent" platformBuildVersionCode="30" platformBuildVersionName="11">
    <application>
      <activity android:name="app.test"/>
    </application>
  </manifest>

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