Este método Java, que se ejecuta en un Android, documenta (lo que he podido interpretar) el formato binario del AndroidManifest.archivo xml en el .paquete apk. El segundo cuadro de código muestra cómo llamar a Descompressxml y cómo cargar el byte[] desde el archivo de paquete de la aplicación en el dispositivo. (Hay campos cuyo propósito no entiendo, si sabes lo que significan, dime, voy a actualizar la información.)

// decompressXML -- Parse the 'compressed' binary form of Android XML docs 
// such as for AndroidManifest.xml in .apk files
public static int endDocTag = 0x00100101;
public static int startTag =  0x00100102;
public static int endTag =    0x00100103;
public void decompressXML(byte[] xml) {
// Compressed XML file/bytes starts with 24x bytes of data,
// 9 32 bit words in little endian order (LSB first):
//   0th word is 03 00 08 00
//   3rd word SEEMS TO BE:  Offset at then of StringTable
//   4th word is: Number of strings in string table
// WARNING: Sometime I indiscriminently display or refer to word in 
//   little endian storage format, or in integer format (ie MSB first).
int numbStrings = LEW(xml, 4*4);

// StringIndexTable starts at offset 24x, an array of 32 bit LE offsets
// of the length/string data in the StringTable.
int sitOff = 0x24;  // Offset of start of StringIndexTable

// StringTable, each string is represented with a 16 bit little endian 
// character count, followed by that number of 16 bit (LE) (Unicode) chars.
int stOff = sitOff + numbStrings*4;  // StringTable follows StrIndexTable

// XMLTags, The XML tag tree starts after some unknown content after the
// StringTable.  There is some unknown data after the StringTable, scan
// forward from this point to the flag for the start of an XML start tag.
int xmlTagOff = LEW(xml, 3*4);  // Start from the offset in the 3rd word.
// Scan forward until we find the bytes: 0x02011000(x00100102 in normal int)
for (int ii=xmlTagOff; ii<xml.length-4; ii+=4) {
  if (LEW(xml, ii) == startTag) { 
    xmlTagOff = ii;  break;
  }
} // end of hack, scanning for start of first start tag

// XML tags and attributes:
// Every XML start and end tag consists of 6 32 bit words:
//   0th word: 02011000 for startTag and 03011000 for endTag 
//   1st word: a flag?, like 38000000
//   2nd word: Line of where this tag appeared in the original source file
//   3rd word: FFFFFFFF ??
//   4th word: StringIndex of NameSpace name, or FFFFFFFF for default NS
//   5th word: StringIndex of Element Name
//   (Note: 01011000 in 0th word means end of XML document, endDocTag)

// Start tags (not end tags) contain 3 more words:
//   6th word: 14001400 meaning?? 
//   7th word: Number of Attributes that follow this tag(follow word 8th)
//   8th word: 00000000 meaning??

// Attributes consist of 5 words: 
//   0th word: StringIndex of Attribute Name's Namespace, or FFFFFFFF
//   1st word: StringIndex of Attribute Name
//   2nd word: StringIndex of Attribute Value, or FFFFFFF if ResourceId used
//   3rd word: Flags?
//   4th word: str ind of attr value again, or ResourceId of value

// TMP, dump string table to tr for debugging
//tr.addSelect("strings", null);
//for (int ii=0; ii<numbStrings; ii++) {
//  // Length of string starts at StringTable plus offset in StrIndTable
//  String str = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, ii);
//  tr.add(String.valueOf(ii), str);
//}
//tr.parent();

// Step through the XML tree element tags and attributes
int off = xmlTagOff;
int indent = 0;
int startTagLineNo = -2;
while (off < xml.length) {
  int tag0 = LEW(xml, off);
  //int tag1 = LEW(xml, off+1*4);
  int lineNo = LEW(xml, off+2*4);
  //int tag3 = LEW(xml, off+3*4);
  int nameNsSi = LEW(xml, off+4*4);
  int nameSi = LEW(xml, off+5*4);

  if (tag0 == startTag) { // XML START TAG
    int tag6 = LEW(xml, off+6*4);  // Expected to be 14001400
    int numbAttrs = LEW(xml, off+7*4);  // Number of Attributes to follow
    //int tag8 = LEW(xml, off+8*4);  // Expected to be 00000000
    off += 9*4;  // Skip over 6+3 words of startTag data
    String name = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
    //tr.addSelect(name, null);
    startTagLineNo = lineNo;

    // Look for the Attributes
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    for (int ii=0; ii<numbAttrs; ii++) {
      int attrNameNsSi = LEW(xml, off);  // AttrName Namespace Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
      int attrNameSi = LEW(xml, off+1*4);  // AttrName String Index
      int attrValueSi = LEW(xml, off+2*4); // AttrValue Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
      int attrFlags = LEW(xml, off+3*4);  
      int attrResId = LEW(xml, off+4*4);  // AttrValue ResourceId or dup AttrValue StrInd
      off += 5*4;  // Skip over the 5 words of an attribute

      String attrName = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, attrNameSi);
      String attrValue = attrValueSi!=-1
        ? compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, attrValueSi)
        : "resourceID 0x"+Integer.toHexString(attrResId);
      sb.append(" "+attrName+"=\""+attrValue+"\"");
      //tr.add(attrName, attrValue);
    }
    prtIndent(indent, "<"+name+sb+">");
    indent++;

  } else if (tag0 == endTag) { // XML END TAG
    indent--;
    off += 6*4;  // Skip over 6 words of endTag data
    String name = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
    prtIndent(indent, "</"+name+">  (line "+startTagLineNo+"-"+lineNo+")");
    //tr.parent();  // Step back up the NobTree

  } else if (tag0 == endDocTag) {  // END OF XML DOC TAG
    break;

  } else {
    prt("  Unrecognized tag code '"+Integer.toHexString(tag0)
      +"' at offset "+off);
    break;
  }
} // end of while loop scanning tags and attributes of XML tree
prt("    end at offset "+off);
} // end of decompressXML


public String compXmlString(byte[] xml, int sitOff, int stOff, int strInd) {
  if (strInd < 0) return null;
  int strOff = stOff + LEW(xml, sitOff+strInd*4);
  return compXmlStringAt(xml, strOff);
}


public static String spaces = "                                             ";
public void prtIndent(int indent, String str) {
  prt(spaces.substring(0, Math.min(indent*2, spaces.length()))+str);
}


// compXmlStringAt -- Return the string stored in StringTable format at
// offset strOff.  This offset points to the 16 bit string length, which 
// is followed by that number of 16 bit (Unicode) chars.
public String compXmlStringAt(byte[] arr, int strOff) {
  int strLen = arr[strOff+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[strOff]&0xff;
  byte[] chars = new byte[strLen];
  for (int ii=0; ii<strLen; ii++) {
    chars[ii] = arr[strOff+2+ii*2];
  }
  return new String(chars);  // Hack, just use 8 byte chars
} // end of compXmlStringAt


// LEW -- Return value of a Little Endian 32 bit word from the byte array
//   at offset off.
public int LEW(byte[] arr, int off) {
  return arr[off+3]<<24&0xff000000 | arr[off+2]<<16&0xff0000
    | arr[off+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[off]&0xFF;
} // end of LEW

Este método lee el AndroidManifest en un byte [] para procesamiento:

public void getIntents(String path) {
  try {
    JarFile jf = new JarFile(path);
    InputStream is = jf.getInputStream(jf.getEntry("AndroidManifest.xml"));
    byte[] xml = new byte[is.available()];
    int br = is.read(xml);
    //Tree tr = TrunkFactory.newTree();
    decompressXML(xml);
    //prt("XML\n"+tr.list());
  } catch (Exception ex) {
    console.log("getIntents, ex: "+ex);  ex.printStackTrace();
  }
} // end of getIntents

La mayoría de las aplicaciones se almacenan en /system/app que es legible sin raíz mi Evo, otras aplicaciones están en /data/app que necesitaba raíz para ver. El argumento' path 'anterior sería algo así como:" / system/app / Weather.apk"

¿Qué hay de usar la herramienta Android Asset Packaging (aapt), del SDK de Android, en un script Python (o lo que sea)?

A través de la aapt ( http://elinux.org/Android_aapt ), de hecho, puede recuperar información sobre el .apk paquete y sobre su AndroidManifest.archivo xml. En particular, puede extraer los valores de los elementos individuales de un .apk paquete a través del sub-comando 'dump'. Por ejemplo, usted puede extrae los permisos de usuario en el AndroidManifest .archivo xml dentro de un .apk paquete de esta manera:

$ aapt dump permissions package.apk

Donde paquete.apk es tu .apk paquete.

Además, puede usar el comando Unix pipe para borrar la salida. Por ejemplo:

$ aapt dump permissions package.apk | sed 1d | awk '{ print $NF }'

Aquí un script Python que a eso programáticamente:

import os
import subprocess

#Current directory and file name:
curpath = os.path.dirname( os.path.realpath(__file__) )
filepath = os.path.join(curpath, "package.apk")

#Extract the AndroidManifest.xml permissions:
command = "aapt dump permissions " + filepath + " | sed 1d | awk '{ print $NF }'"
process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=None, shell=True)
permissions = process.communicate()[0]

print permissions

De manera similar, puede extraer otra información (por ejemplo, paquete, nombre de la aplicación, etc...) del AndroidManifest.xml :

#Extract the APK package info:
shellcommand = "aapt dump badging " + filepath
process = subprocess.Popen(shellcommand, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=None, shell=True)
apkInfo = process.communicate()[0].splitlines()

for info in apkInfo:
    #Package info:
    if string.find(info, "package:", 0) != -1:
        print "App Package: " + findBetween(info, "name='", "'")
        print "App Version: " + findBetween(info, "versionName='", "'")
        continue

    #App name:
    if string.find(info, "application:", 0) != -1:
        print "App Name: " + findBetween(info, "label='", "'")
        continue


def findBetween(s, prefix, suffix):
    try:
        start = s.index(prefix) + len(prefix)
        end = s.index(suffix, start)
        return s[start:end]
    except ValueError:
        return ""

Si en su lugar desea analizar todo el árbol XML de AndroidManifest, puede hacerlo de manera similar utilizando el comando xmltree:

aapt dump xmltree package.apk AndroidManifest.xml

Usando Python como antes:

#Extract the AndroidManifest XML tree:
shellcommand = "aapt dump xmltree " + filepath + " AndroidManifest.xml"
process = subprocess.Popen(shellcommand, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=None, shell=True)
xmlTree = process.communicate()[0]

print "Number of Activities: " + str(xmlTree.count("activity"))
print "Number of Services: " + str(xmlTree.count("service"))
print "Number of BroadcastReceivers: " + str(xmlTree.count("receiver"))

Puede utilizar axml2xml.pl herramienta desarrollada hace un tiempo dentro del proyecto android-random. Generará el archivo de manifiesto textual (AndroidManifest.xml) del binario.

Estoy diciendo " textual" y no " original" porque como muchas herramientas de ingeniería inversa esta no es perfecta y el resultado no será completo. Supongo que nunca fue característica completa o simplemente no forward-compatible (con más reciente esquema de codificación binaria). Cualquiera que sea la razón, axml2xml.pl la herramienta no podrá extraer todos los valores de atributo correctamente. Estos atributos son minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion y básicamente todos los atributos que hacen referencia a recursos (como cadenas, iconos, etc.).), es decir, solo nombres de clases(de actividades, servicios, etc.) se extraen correctamente.

Sin embargo, aún puede encontrar esta información faltante ejecutando la herramienta aapt en el archivo original de la aplicación Android (.apk):

Aapt l-a

Marque este siguiente Proyecto WPF que decodifica las propiedades correctamente.

Apk-parser, https://github.com/caoqianli/apk-parser, un impl ligero para java, sin dependencia para aapt u otros binarys, es bueno para analizar archivos xml binarios y otras informaciones apk.

ApkParser apkParser = new ApkParser(new File(filePath));
// set a locale to translate resource tag into specific strings in language the locale specified, you set locale to Locale.ENGLISH then get apk title 'WeChat' instead of '@string/app_name' for example
apkParser.setPreferredLocale(locale);

String xml = apkParser.getManifestXml();
System.out.println(xml);

String xml2 = apkParser.transBinaryXml(xmlPathInApk);
System.out.println(xml2);

ApkMeta apkMeta = apkParser.getApkMeta();
System.out.println(apkMeta);

Set<Locale> locales = apkParser.getLocales();
for (Locale l : locales) {
    System.out.println(l);
}
apkParser.close();

En caso de que sea útil, aquí hay una versión en C++ del fragmento de Java publicado por Ribo:

struct decompressXML
{
    // decompressXML -- Parse the 'compressed' binary form of Android XML docs 
    // such as for AndroidManifest.xml in .apk files
    enum
    {
        endDocTag = 0x00100101,
        startTag =  0x00100102,
        endTag =    0x00100103
    };

    decompressXML(const BYTE* xml, int cb) {
    // Compressed XML file/bytes starts with 24x bytes of data,
    // 9 32 bit words in little endian order (LSB first):
    //   0th word is 03 00 08 00
    //   3rd word SEEMS TO BE:  Offset at then of StringTable
    //   4th word is: Number of strings in string table
    // WARNING: Sometime I indiscriminently display or refer to word in 
    //   little endian storage format, or in integer format (ie MSB first).
    int numbStrings = LEW(xml, cb, 4*4);

    // StringIndexTable starts at offset 24x, an array of 32 bit LE offsets
    // of the length/string data in the StringTable.
    int sitOff = 0x24;  // Offset of start of StringIndexTable

    // StringTable, each string is represented with a 16 bit little endian 
    // character count, followed by that number of 16 bit (LE) (Unicode) chars.
    int stOff = sitOff + numbStrings*4;  // StringTable follows StrIndexTable

    // XMLTags, The XML tag tree starts after some unknown content after the
    // StringTable.  There is some unknown data after the StringTable, scan
    // forward from this point to the flag for the start of an XML start tag.
    int xmlTagOff = LEW(xml, cb, 3*4);  // Start from the offset in the 3rd word.
    // Scan forward until we find the bytes: 0x02011000(x00100102 in normal int)
    for (int ii=xmlTagOff; ii<cb-4; ii+=4) {
      if (LEW(xml, cb, ii) == startTag) { 
        xmlTagOff = ii;  break;
      }
    } // end of hack, scanning for start of first start tag

    // XML tags and attributes:
    // Every XML start and end tag consists of 6 32 bit words:
    //   0th word: 02011000 for startTag and 03011000 for endTag 
    //   1st word: a flag?, like 38000000
    //   2nd word: Line of where this tag appeared in the original source file
    //   3rd word: FFFFFFFF ??
    //   4th word: StringIndex of NameSpace name, or FFFFFFFF for default NS
    //   5th word: StringIndex of Element Name
    //   (Note: 01011000 in 0th word means end of XML document, endDocTag)

    // Start tags (not end tags) contain 3 more words:
    //   6th word: 14001400 meaning?? 
    //   7th word: Number of Attributes that follow this tag(follow word 8th)
    //   8th word: 00000000 meaning??

    // Attributes consist of 5 words: 
    //   0th word: StringIndex of Attribute Name's Namespace, or FFFFFFFF
    //   1st word: StringIndex of Attribute Name
    //   2nd word: StringIndex of Attribute Value, or FFFFFFF if ResourceId used
    //   3rd word: Flags?
    //   4th word: str ind of attr value again, or ResourceId of value

    // TMP, dump string table to tr for debugging
    //tr.addSelect("strings", null);
    //for (int ii=0; ii<numbStrings; ii++) {
    //  // Length of string starts at StringTable plus offset in StrIndTable
    //  String str = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, ii);
    //  tr.add(String.valueOf(ii), str);
    //}
    //tr.parent();

    // Step through the XML tree element tags and attributes
    int off = xmlTagOff;
    int indent = 0;
    int startTagLineNo = -2;
    while (off < cb) {
      int tag0 = LEW(xml, cb, off);
      //int tag1 = LEW(xml, off+1*4);
      int lineNo = LEW(xml, cb, off+2*4);
      //int tag3 = LEW(xml, off+3*4);
      int nameNsSi = LEW(xml, cb, off+4*4);
      int nameSi = LEW(xml, cb, off+5*4);

      if (tag0 == startTag) { // XML START TAG
        int tag6 = LEW(xml, cb, off+6*4);  // Expected to be 14001400
        int numbAttrs = LEW(xml, cb, off+7*4);  // Number of Attributes to follow
        //int tag8 = LEW(xml, off+8*4);  // Expected to be 00000000
        off += 9*4;  // Skip over 6+3 words of startTag data
        std::string name = compXmlString(xml, cb, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
        //tr.addSelect(name, null);
        startTagLineNo = lineNo;

        // Look for the Attributes
        std::string sb;
        for (int ii=0; ii<numbAttrs; ii++) {
          int attrNameNsSi = LEW(xml, cb, off);  // AttrName Namespace Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
          int attrNameSi = LEW(xml, cb, off+1*4);  // AttrName String Index
          int attrValueSi = LEW(xml, cb, off+2*4); // AttrValue Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
          int attrFlags = LEW(xml, cb, off+3*4);  
          int attrResId = LEW(xml, cb, off+4*4);  // AttrValue ResourceId or dup AttrValue StrInd
          off += 5*4;  // Skip over the 5 words of an attribute

          std::string attrName = compXmlString(xml, cb, sitOff, stOff, attrNameSi);
          std::string attrValue = attrValueSi!=-1
            ? compXmlString(xml, cb, sitOff, stOff, attrValueSi)
            : "resourceID 0x"+toHexString(attrResId);
          sb.append(" "+attrName+"=\""+attrValue+"\"");
          //tr.add(attrName, attrValue);
        }
        prtIndent(indent, "<"+name+sb+">");
        indent++;

      } else if (tag0 == endTag) { // XML END TAG
        indent--;
        off += 6*4;  // Skip over 6 words of endTag data
        std::string name = compXmlString(xml, cb, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
        prtIndent(indent, "</"+name+">  (line "+toIntString(startTagLineNo)+"-"+toIntString(lineNo)+")");
        //tr.parent();  // Step back up the NobTree

      } else if (tag0 == endDocTag) {  // END OF XML DOC TAG
        break;

      } else {
        prt("  Unrecognized tag code '"+toHexString(tag0)
          +"' at offset "+toIntString(off));
        break;
      }
    } // end of while loop scanning tags and attributes of XML tree
    prt("    end at offset "+off);
    } // end of decompressXML


    std::string compXmlString(const BYTE* xml, int cb, int sitOff, int stOff, int strInd) {
      if (strInd < 0) return std::string("");
      int strOff = stOff + LEW(xml, cb, sitOff+strInd*4);
      return compXmlStringAt(xml, cb, strOff);
    }

    void prt(std::string str)
    {
        printf("%s", str.c_str());
    }
    void prtIndent(int indent, std::string str) {
        char spaces[46];
        memset(spaces, ' ', sizeof(spaces));
        spaces[min(indent*2,  sizeof(spaces) - 1)] = 0;
        prt(spaces);
        prt(str);
        prt("\n");
    }


    // compXmlStringAt -- Return the string stored in StringTable format at
    // offset strOff.  This offset points to the 16 bit string length, which 
    // is followed by that number of 16 bit (Unicode) chars.
    std::string compXmlStringAt(const BYTE* arr, int cb, int strOff) {
        if (cb < strOff + 2) return std::string("");
      int strLen = arr[strOff+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[strOff]&0xff;
      char* chars = new char[strLen + 1];
      chars[strLen] = 0;
      for (int ii=0; ii<strLen; ii++) {
          if (cb < strOff + 2 + ii * 2)
          {
              chars[ii] = 0;
              break;
          }
        chars[ii] = arr[strOff+2+ii*2];
      }
      std::string str(chars);
      free(chars);
      return str;
    } // end of compXmlStringAt


    // LEW -- Return value of a Little Endian 32 bit word from the byte array
    //   at offset off.
    int LEW(const BYTE* arr, int cb, int off) {
      return (cb > off + 3) ? ( arr[off+3]<<24&0xff000000 | arr[off+2]<<16&0xff0000
          | arr[off+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[off]&0xFF ) : 0;
    } // end of LEW

    std::string toHexString(DWORD attrResId)
    {
        char ch[20];
        sprintf_s(ch, 20, "%lx", attrResId);
        return std::string(ch);
    }
    std::string toIntString(int i)
    {
        char ch[20];
        sprintf_s(ch, 20, "%ld", i);
        return std::string(ch);
    }
};

Si está en Python o usa Androguard, la función Androguard Androaxml hará esta conversión por usted. La característica se detalla en esta entrada de blog, con documentación adicional aquí y fuente aquí.

Uso:

$ ./androaxml.py -h
Usage: androaxml.py [options]

Options:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-i INPUT, --input=INPUT
                      filename input (APK or android's binary xml)
-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
                      filename output of the xml
-v, --version         version of the API

$ ./androaxml.py -i yourfile.apk -o output.xml
$ ./androaxml.py -i AndroidManifest.xml -o output.xml

Para referencia aquí está mi versión del código de Ribo. La principal diferencia es que decompressXML () devuelve directamente una cadena, que para mis propósitos era un uso más apropiado.

NOTA: mi único propósito al usar la solución de Ribo era obtener un.Versión publicada del archivo APK del archivo XML Manifiesto, y confirmo que para este propósito funciona muy bien.

EDITAR [2013-03-16]: Funciona muy bien SI la versión se establece como texto sin formato, pero si se establece para referirse a un XML de recursos, se mostrará como 'Recurso 0x1' por ejemplo. En este caso en particular, probablemente tendrá que acoplar esta solución a otra solución que obtendrá la referencia de recurso de cadena adecuada.

/**
 * Binary XML doc ending Tag
 */
public static int endDocTag = 0x00100101;

/**
 * Binary XML start Tag
 */
public static int startTag =  0x00100102;

/**
 * Binary XML end Tag
 */
public static int endTag =    0x00100103;


/**
 * Reference var for spacing
 * Used in prtIndent()
 */
public static String spaces = "                                             ";


/**
 * Parse the 'compressed' binary form of Android XML docs 
 * such as for AndroidManifest.xml in .apk files
 * Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2097813/how-to-parse-the-androidmanifest-xml-file-inside-an-apk-package/4761689#4761689
 * 
 * @param xml Encoded XML content to decompress
 */
public static String decompressXML(byte[] xml) {

    StringBuilder resultXml = new StringBuilder();

    // Compressed XML file/bytes starts with 24x bytes of data,
    // 9 32 bit words in little endian order (LSB first):
    //   0th word is 03 00 08 00
    //   3rd word SEEMS TO BE:  Offset at then of StringTable
    //   4th word is: Number of strings in string table
    // WARNING: Sometime I indiscriminently display or refer to word in 
    //   little endian storage format, or in integer format (ie MSB first).
    int numbStrings = LEW(xml, 4*4);

    // StringIndexTable starts at offset 24x, an array of 32 bit LE offsets
    // of the length/string data in the StringTable.
    int sitOff = 0x24;  // Offset of start of StringIndexTable

    // StringTable, each string is represented with a 16 bit little endian 
    // character count, followed by that number of 16 bit (LE) (Unicode) chars.
    int stOff = sitOff + numbStrings*4;  // StringTable follows StrIndexTable

    // XMLTags, The XML tag tree starts after some unknown content after the
    // StringTable.  There is some unknown data after the StringTable, scan
    // forward from this point to the flag for the start of an XML start tag.
    int xmlTagOff = LEW(xml, 3*4);  // Start from the offset in the 3rd word.
    // Scan forward until we find the bytes: 0x02011000(x00100102 in normal int)
    for (int ii=xmlTagOff; ii<xml.length-4; ii+=4) {
      if (LEW(xml, ii) == startTag) { 
        xmlTagOff = ii;  break;
      }
    } // end of hack, scanning for start of first start tag

    // XML tags and attributes:
    // Every XML start and end tag consists of 6 32 bit words:
    //   0th word: 02011000 for startTag and 03011000 for endTag 
    //   1st word: a flag?, like 38000000
    //   2nd word: Line of where this tag appeared in the original source file
    //   3rd word: FFFFFFFF ??
    //   4th word: StringIndex of NameSpace name, or FFFFFFFF for default NS
    //   5th word: StringIndex of Element Name
    //   (Note: 01011000 in 0th word means end of XML document, endDocTag)

    // Start tags (not end tags) contain 3 more words:
    //   6th word: 14001400 meaning?? 
    //   7th word: Number of Attributes that follow this tag(follow word 8th)
    //   8th word: 00000000 meaning??

    // Attributes consist of 5 words: 
    //   0th word: StringIndex of Attribute Name's Namespace, or FFFFFFFF
    //   1st word: StringIndex of Attribute Name
    //   2nd word: StringIndex of Attribute Value, or FFFFFFF if ResourceId used
    //   3rd word: Flags?
    //   4th word: str ind of attr value again, or ResourceId of value

    // TMP, dump string table to tr for debugging
    //tr.addSelect("strings", null);
    //for (int ii=0; ii<numbStrings; ii++) {
    //  // Length of string starts at StringTable plus offset in StrIndTable
    //  String str = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, ii);
    //  tr.add(String.valueOf(ii), str);
    //}
    //tr.parent();

    // Step through the XML tree element tags and attributes
    int off = xmlTagOff;
    int indent = 0;
    int startTagLineNo = -2;
    while (off < xml.length) {
      int tag0 = LEW(xml, off);
      //int tag1 = LEW(xml, off+1*4);
      int lineNo = LEW(xml, off+2*4);
      //int tag3 = LEW(xml, off+3*4);
      int nameNsSi = LEW(xml, off+4*4);
      int nameSi = LEW(xml, off+5*4);

      if (tag0 == startTag) { // XML START TAG
        int tag6 = LEW(xml, off+6*4);  // Expected to be 14001400
        int numbAttrs = LEW(xml, off+7*4);  // Number of Attributes to follow
        //int tag8 = LEW(xml, off+8*4);  // Expected to be 00000000
        off += 9*4;  // Skip over 6+3 words of startTag data
        String name = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
        //tr.addSelect(name, null);
        startTagLineNo = lineNo;

        // Look for the Attributes
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        for (int ii=0; ii<numbAttrs; ii++) {
          int attrNameNsSi = LEW(xml, off);  // AttrName Namespace Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
          int attrNameSi = LEW(xml, off+1*4);  // AttrName String Index
          int attrValueSi = LEW(xml, off+2*4); // AttrValue Str Ind, or FFFFFFFF
          int attrFlags = LEW(xml, off+3*4);  
          int attrResId = LEW(xml, off+4*4);  // AttrValue ResourceId or dup AttrValue StrInd
          off += 5*4;  // Skip over the 5 words of an attribute

          String attrName = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, attrNameSi);
          String attrValue = attrValueSi!=-1
            ? compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, attrValueSi)
            : "resourceID 0x"+Integer.toHexString(attrResId);
          sb.append(" "+attrName+"=\""+attrValue+"\"");
          //tr.add(attrName, attrValue);
        }
        resultXml.append(prtIndent(indent, "<"+name+sb+">"));
        indent++;

      } else if (tag0 == endTag) { // XML END TAG
        indent--;
        off += 6*4;  // Skip over 6 words of endTag data
        String name = compXmlString(xml, sitOff, stOff, nameSi);
        resultXml.append(prtIndent(indent, "</"+name+">  (line "+startTagLineNo+"-"+lineNo+")"));
        //tr.parent();  // Step back up the NobTree

      } else if (tag0 == endDocTag) {  // END OF XML DOC TAG
        break;

      } else {
          Log.e(TAG, "  Unrecognized tag code '"+Integer.toHexString(tag0)
          +"' at offset "+off);
        break;
      }
    } // end of while loop scanning tags and attributes of XML tree
    Log.i(TAG, "    end at offset "+off);

    return resultXml.toString();
} // end of decompressXML


/**
 * Tool Method for decompressXML();
 * Compute binary XML to its string format 
 * Source: Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2097813/how-to-parse-the-androidmanifest-xml-file-inside-an-apk-package/4761689#4761689
 * 
 * @param xml Binary-formatted XML
 * @param sitOff
 * @param stOff
 * @param strInd
 * @return String-formatted XML
 */
public static String compXmlString(byte[] xml, int sitOff, int stOff, int strInd) {
  if (strInd < 0) return null;
  int strOff = stOff + LEW(xml, sitOff+strInd*4);
  return compXmlStringAt(xml, strOff);
}


/**
 * Tool Method for decompressXML(); 
 * Apply indentation
 * 
 * @param indent Indentation level
 * @param str String to indent
 * @return Indented string
 */
public static String prtIndent(int indent, String str) {

    return (spaces.substring(0, Math.min(indent*2, spaces.length()))+str);
}


/** 
 * Tool method for decompressXML()
 * Return the string stored in StringTable format at
 * offset strOff.  This offset points to the 16 bit string length, which 
 * is followed by that number of 16 bit (Unicode) chars.
 * 
 * @param arr StringTable array
 * @param strOff Offset to get string from
 * @return String from StringTable at offset strOff
 * 
 */
public static String compXmlStringAt(byte[] arr, int strOff) {
  int strLen = arr[strOff+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[strOff]&0xff;
  byte[] chars = new byte[strLen];
  for (int ii=0; ii<strLen; ii++) {
    chars[ii] = arr[strOff+2+ii*2];
  }
  return new String(chars);  // Hack, just use 8 byte chars
} // end of compXmlStringAt


/** 
 * Return value of a Little Endian 32 bit word from the byte array
 *   at offset off.
 * 
 * @param arr Byte array with 32 bit word
 * @param off Offset to get word from
 * @return Value of Little Endian 32 bit word specified
 */
public static int LEW(byte[] arr, int off) {
  return arr[off+3]<<24&0xff000000 | arr[off+2]<<16&0xff0000
    | arr[off+1]<<8&0xff00 | arr[off]&0xFF;
} // end of LEW

Espero que pueda ayudar a otras personas también.

Con las últimas herramientas SDK, ahora puede usar una herramienta llamada apkanalyzer para imprimir el AndroidManifest.xml de un APK (así como otras partes, como recursos).

[android sdk]/tools/bin/apkanalyzer manifest print [app.apk]

Apkanalyzer

En Android Studio 2.2 puedes analizar directamente el apk. Goto build-analizar apk. Seleccione el apk, vaya a androidmanifest.XML. Puedes ver los detalles de androidmanifest.

Encontré la AXMLPrinter2, una aplicación Java en el proyecto Android4Me para funcionar bien en el AndroidManifest.xml que tenía (e imprime el XML de una manera muy bien formateada). http://code.google.com/p/android4me/downloads/detail?name=AXMLPrinter2.jar

Una nota.. esto (y el código de esta respuesta de Ribo) no parece manejar todos los archivos XML compilados que he encontrado. Encontré una donde las cadenas se almacenaban con un byte por carácter, en lugar del byte doble formato que asume.

Puede ser útil

public static int vCodeApk(String path) {
    PackageManager pm = G.context.getPackageManager();
    PackageInfo info = pm.getPackageArchiveInfo(path, 0);
    return info.versionCode;
    //        Toast.makeText(this, "VersionCode : " + info.versionCode + ", VersionName : " + info.versionName, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

G es mi clase de aplicación:

public class G extends Application {

He estado funcionando con el código Ribo publicado anteriormente durante más de un año, y nos ha servido bien. Con actualizaciones recientes (Gradle 3.x) sin embargo, ya no era capaz de analizar el AndroidManifest.xml, estaba obteniendo errores de índice fuera de límites, y en general ya no era capaz de analizar el archivo.

Actualización: Ahora creo que nuestros problemas fueron con la actualización a Gradle 3.x. Este artículo describe cómo AirWatch tenía problemas y puede solucionarse usando una configuración de Gradle para usar aapt en lugar de aapt2 AirWatch parece ser incompatible con el complemento de Android para Gradle 3.0.0-beta1

En la búsqueda me encontré con este proyecto de código abierto, y se está manteniendo y yo era capaz de llegar al punto y leer tanto mis antiguos APK que podía analizar previamente, y los nuevos APK que la lógica de Ribo lanzó excepciones

Https://github.com/xgouchet/AXML

De su ejemplo esto es lo que estoy haciendo

  zf = new ZipFile(apkFile);

  //Getting the manifest
  ZipEntry entry = zf.getEntry("AndroidManifest.xml");
  InputStream is = zf.getInputStream(entry);

     // Read our manifest Document
     Document manifestDoc = new CompressedXmlParser().parseDOM(is);

     // Make sure we got a doc, and that it has children
     if (null != manifestDoc && manifestDoc.getChildNodes().getLength() > 0) {
        //
        Node firstNode = manifestDoc.getFirstChild();

        // Now get the attributes out of the node
        NamedNodeMap nodeMap = firstNode.getAttributes();

        // Finally to a point where we can read out our values
        versionName = nodeMap.getNamedItem("android:versionName").getNodeValue();
        versionCode = nodeMap.getNamedItem("android:versionCode").getNodeValue();
     }