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Jay Sidri
Jay Sidri

Reputation: 6406

Running aapt on a remote Linux server

OK, this might sound a little crazy but here goes:

I have a few hundred Android APK files sitting on a remote (dedicated) server running CentOS 5. I need to grab some meta data off these apk files - specifically: the package name and the permission matrix.

I planned on hacking together a script that would iterate through each .apk file and feeding them to the aapt utility

aapt dump badging app.apk

.. and grabbing the output and parsing it for what I need. Works fine on Windows (I have the SDK installed)

I downloaded the platform SDK for Linux and extracted it but I could not find the aapt utility - does this need to be downloaded separately? I'm not sure if I have to actually download the platform files like I did when I installed it on Windows - this is a headless remote server I'm accessing via SSH.

Is what I'm trying to do even possible? If not, what else could I do to grab the meta data I need?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1396

Answers (2)

Daniel Skinner
Daniel Skinner

Reputation: 220

you need to run

./android update sdk -u

granted that's the lazy/long way but you'll end up with aapt in the platform-tools directory. The -u option is for disabling the gui so it runs in command line.

Upvotes: 0

Mark Allison
Mark Allison

Reputation: 21909

Try looking under $ANDROID_HOME/platforms/$SDK/tools/ (i.e. android-sdk-linux_86/platforms/android-3/tools).

Upvotes: 1

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