APK Cloner

[SZRabinowitz]

The user should specify the new package name and it should modify the APK to have the new package name. Maybe it should have a default value which is to update the last character by one (for example, com.example would become com.examplf).

This is confusing and requires correct logic. The java classes will stay the same, so activity names cant be modified. and any activity, service, receiver etc that begins with a . in the manifest will need to be edited to include the original package name, because those classes wont exist anymore once the package name is changed.

This can be useful for installing multiple versions of an app on your phone or for changing the package name in general (I can list a few use cases if you want).

[REAndroid]

I already done this on my private repo. I will merge it soon after advanced features are completed

[SZRabinowitz]

Wow that sounds really cool! Best of luck! Thank you so much for this amazing work!

[SZRabinowitz]

Now since apkeditor uses smali, will this feature be extended to smali classes?

(in a way its easier because you dont need to pay attention what start with ., if you will anyway change all classes to match package)

[REAndroid]

My next goal is to integrate AI/GPT then rename classes will be minor thing.

[jaredcat]

Any updates on this?
I made this for my use case: https://github.com/jaredcat/apk-cloner
Ive used it specifically to make multiple Twitch apps that are patched with Revanced

[SZRabinowitz]

find and replace suited my needs so I never really pushed. I would love to contribute to this library sometimes but I stink in Java so I made a simple find/replace in python instead.

What I love about this cli tool is that it works really nicely when used with other programming languages. Especially the JSON.