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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition
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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

by Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Manifest file decoding and analysis

The manifest file describes essential information about an application to the Android build tools, the Android operating system, and Google Play. If you open such a file in a text editor, you will see that most of the data is encoded and can't normally be viewed.

If we want to analyze its contents, we need to use an Android binary XML decoder. One such decoder is axmldec, which is available for download here: https://github.com/ytsutano/axmldec/releases.

To decode the extracted manifest file, run axmldec from the Command Prompt with the following argument:

axmldec.exe -i AndroidManifest.xml -o manifest_decoded.xml

The output file can be easily viewed with a text editor of your choice. The file contains ...

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