Parse versionCode from android apk files

Question

I know .apk files are .zip files, but AndroidManifest.xml looks binary and certainly grep or hex editors haven\'t been successful extracting the versionCode.

Does anybod

Answer 1

Assuming you have the Android SDK installed, you can use aapt to find this value. For example, on Linux:

aapt dump badging MyAwesomeApplication.apk |grep version