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Recompile APK + Sign with apktool
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recompile-and-run.sh
# You must first install apktool (https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool) and android SDK
# and decompile apk using it
# apktool d -rf my-app.apk
# then generate a key for sign in:
# keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
rm signed-app.apk
apktool b -f -d com.myapp
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore com.myapp/dist/com.myapp.apk alias_name
zipalign -v 4 com.myapp/dist/com.myapp.apk signed-app.apk
adb -d install -r signed-app.apk
adb shell am start -n com.myapp/com.myApp.MainActivity
adb logcat | grep -E 'filter-logcat1|filter-logcat2|...'
@VladChekunov
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Why there are two apk files?

@sikrinick
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Why there are two apk files?

zipalign does not overwrite input apk with output.

@sikrinick
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sikrinick commented Dec 3, 2022 •
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Btw, jarsigner won't work for Android 11+, due to Signature Scheme V1 deprecation.

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unixfox commented Dec 13, 2023

Need to use apksigner sign --ks my-release-key.keystore -v signed-app.apk now instead of jarsigner.

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