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Not able to decompile Chrome Beta v72

See original GitHub issue

Information

Apktool Version (apktool -version) - 2.3.4
Operating System (Mac, Linux, Windows) - Linux
APK From? (Playstore, ROM, Other) - Play Store/APK Mirror

Steps to Reproduce

apktool d chrome.apk
All reources will have 0_resource_name_obfuscated_APKTOOL_DUPLICATENAME_ and some id after that.

APK

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/chrome-beta/chrome-beta-72-0-3626-53-release/chrome-beta-72-0-3626-53-2-android-apk-download/download/

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

iBotPeachescommented, Jan 12, 2019

This is intended and working. How is Apktool suppose to name resources if the application has all the resources named the same?

        resource 0x7f16001a com.chrome.beta:xml/0_resource_name_obfuscated: t=0x03 d=0x00000461 (s=0x0008 r=0x00)
        resource 0x7f16001b com.chrome.beta:xml/0_resource_name_obfuscated: t=0x03 d=0x00000462 (s=0x0008 r=0x00)
        resource 0x7f16001c com.chrome.beta:xml/0_resource_name_obfuscated: t=0x03 d=0x00000463 (s=0x0008 r=0x00)

Every resource is the same name, so in order to decode to human readable formats we need to make up a name.

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nishithkhannacommented, Jan 14, 2019

Thanks for such a detailed explanation. And sorry for taking so much of your time. The explanation really helped me understand what’s going on.

Actually I am a themer so that’s why was so concerned about this. Firstly it happened in Facebook now it has some folders like color2

Now this is coming to Google apps. Maybe they are using some obfuscating code that is causing this. Anyways it is what it is.

Thanks again for such explanation and for making apktool.

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