How to extract apk file from PC?

Question

I am able to extract my application apk file from PC. I am using the steps are 1. Add .zip after myapp.apk.zip

The APK file has been extracted successfully. But I am not able to see the XML file content.

The XML file has been incorrect format. This is my application. Learning Purpose Only.

Thanks.

Solution

Decompiling Android APPs using APKTool

Open command prompt and run below command.

apktool d apkfile ./FolderName

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Comments

[Jahir]

Thanks Your video and links are useful to me. Thanks.

[zapl]

XML resource files are always stored in a "binary optimized format" or how they called it to reduce the size and accelerate loading. Not intentional obfuscation but you can't read it without undoing the optimization.