No need to reinvent the wheel:
https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
Hope this helps
Yaron
On 07/11/2013 02:13 AM, giles ian wrote:
Hi Illyoung Choi,
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On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:09:12 PM UTC-7, Illyoung Choi wrote:
Hi All.
Last day, I made a simple application for parsing an Android Resource
File (*.arsc) and modifying resource strings.
I think this thing might be a help for someone, so I'll share the
structure of *.arsc that I understood.
Since I could not spend many hours for this, my understanding is not
perfect and might be slightly wrong.
I patched string resource from *.apk.
Simply extracted *.apk with 7zip and got the resources.arsc file.
Below are the structure of *.arsc
struct ANDROID_RESOURCE_HEADER
{
int signature; // 0x000c0002, I assume this is a signature
int nImageLength; // total ARSC file size (bytes)
int nUnknown1[2]; // still unknown (not important for modifying
strings)
int nStringBlockLength; // total StringBlock(see below) size
int nStringCount; // total number of String Resources
int nUnknown2[4]; // still unknown (not important for modifying
strings)
}
"struct ANDROID_RESOURCE_HEADER" is a header of ARSC file image.
So simply you can read this header information from file.
After this header, you will meet the StringBlock
StringBlock has 2Sections
{
[String Offset]
[String Data]
}
String Offset Section has Offset Values of Specific Strings from
StringBlock Start Address.
String Data Section has 2 Part
String Data
{
[Length]
[String]
}
Length part is 2byte. but, in AscII Mode, uses only 1byte.
Before reading String, you must check whether it is "Unicode" or
"AscII" format.
in Unicode format, Length part will be used with 2bytes.
normally it is "0x??, 0x00" (only if it is not longer than 256 bytes)
in AscII format, Length part will be used with 1bytes. but, they also
used second byte for mirroring.
if string length has a value 7, you will meet "0x07, 0x07"
So, I checked whether both bytes have same value to check string
format.
Lastly, actual string data will be after this length part with "Zero
Terminal"
in Unicode format, surely, Zero Terminal will be 2 byte of zero.
Whenever you change the string of this ARSC file, you should
recalculate these.
Length Part of String Data
String Offset of StringBlock
nImageLength of Header
nStringBlockLength of Header
After doing these all.
Simply, remove all JAR Signature (META-INF folder) from package.
Re-Archive with Zip and rename with *.apk.
Resign with your certificate by using "jarsigner" of JDK
Thanks.
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