CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidandroid-ndkapkcpu-architectureabi
Tal Kanel
Tal Kanel

Reputation: 10785

Read Application.mk information from an apk

I would like to know if there is any way to extract from an APK file the Application.mk information.

I particularly interested getting from the APK the supported CPU ABI's

if it's not possible reading the Application.mk file, then what is the right way knowing for sure what ABI's the apk is built for?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 160

Answers (1)

Mimmo Grottoli
Mimmo Grottoli

Reputation: 5773

The tool that you can use server side to analyse an apk are unzip or, if you want to go deeper, apktool. When you unzip the apk you'll find a folder for each supported abi inside the lib folder of the uncompressed apk (x86, armeabi-v7a, etc.). The list of folder is the list of supported ABI, so you can get the information there. By code you can get the list of supported ABI of a device using the CPU_ABI for device running pre Lollipop and SUPPORTED_ABIS for devices running Android 21+.

About your question: the Application.mk is used to build the native library, so it's not zipped within the apk.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions