⛏️ AAPYT • Python wrapper for aapt

AAPYT is a Python wrapper for the Android Asset Packaging Tool (aapt) that allows you to extract information from Android APK files.

Why did I create aapyt? There are several libraries that extract some data about APK files but not all the necessary data. Here you will of course receive packageName, versionCode and versionName, but also data such as minSdk and targetSdk, the labels of the application in different languages, permissions, libraries and features, supportedScreens and languages, a path to the icons, and of course, one of the more important information - which abis the application supports.

Usage

from aapyt import get_apk_info

# get apk info
apk_path = '/home/david/whatsapp.apk'
info = get_apk_info(apk_path)
print(info.package_name) # com.whatsapp
print(info.version_code) # 222378000
print(info.labels.get('en') if info.labels else None) # WhatsApp
print(info.abis) # ['armeabi-v7a', 'arm64-v8a']

# get data as dict
print(get_apk_info(apk_path, as_dict=True))

# provide path to aapt
get_apk_info(apk_path, aapt_path='./aapt')

# example to extract app icon
from zipfile import ZipFile
icon_480 = info.icons.get(480) if info.icons else None
if str(icon_480).endswith('.png'):
    ZipFile(apk_path).extract(icon_480)

Installation

Install with pip

pip3 install -U aapyt

Or, install from source:

git clone https://github.com/david-lev/aapyt.git
cd aapyt
python3 setup.py install

Install aapt

aapyt requires aapt to be in the PATH. In each operating system, the way to install aapt is different, if you installed Android Studio, add one of the build-tools paths to the PATH, if you are on a Debian-based Linux system (Ubuntu etc.) you can install with sudo apt install aapt, and on Windows and Mac? Just google "How to install aapt on X".

• If you do not have access to PATH, you can manually provide a path to aapt by calling the get_apk_info(apk_path) function.

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The attributes install_location and abis come as values from Enum's in order to allow certainty for checking where the application can run. You can import them from aapyt and check the values against them:

from aapyt import InstallLocation, Abi