recompiled apk file does not start any longer about apktool HOT 7 CLOSED

zipalign at first and signer apk at last

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Sorry you are encountering this, as mentioned above - depending on the type of signature you have to zipalign prior now. However, you are using jarsigner which is quite old. So that isn't the problem.

Theres just not enough details here to work from - so apologies I'm not positive.

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Hm ok, I always ziped after signing.

But this seems not to be the problem.

I tried only unpacking and packing my apf file.
apktool d -s compiled.apk -o whatever / apktool b whatever -o whatever_repacked.apk

Here I got several errors.
/whatever/res/values-v31/colors.xml:34: error: resource android:color/background_floating_material_dark is private.

This I could fix with replacing @android with *@android.

But then I got this errors.
whatever/res/color-v31/m3_ref_palette_dynamic_neutral24.xml:4: error: attribute android:lStar not found.

So, since I compile my app for Android 10+, I can not unpack and repack the apk file with apktool any longer.
Maybe my recompiled ans smaller app is not running, because there are some things missing while recompiling.

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This test worked:

apktool d -r compiled.apk -o whatever
apktool b whatever -o whatever_repacked.apk

apktool 2.5dirty / 2.8.1 / 2.9 / 2.9.1:

release 1:
37M compiled.apk
38M whatever_repacked.apk

latest release:
54M compiled.apk
43M whatever_repacked.apk

You can see, that the latest release is quite smaller than the original apk file.

This does not work while recompiling (values-v31/colors.xml problems and so on):

apktool d -s compiled.apk -o whatever
apktool b whatever -o whatever_repacked.apk

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I see, so skipping resource disassembly leads to a proper build.

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Yes, but only on older release I compiled with older Android Studio.
Since I changed to Android 10+ apps, it also do not work with skipping resource disasselmbly. Then the recompiled apk file has 10 MB less size. It can be installed but it will not start.

Same procedure on 2.9.1. :-(

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Noone any idea?

Please re-open this issue.

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