GUI for apktool, signapk, zipalign and baksmali utilities.

It is a tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications; it makes possible to debug smali code step by step. Also it makes working with app easier because of project-like files structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc.

https://github.com/AndnixSH/APKToolGUI/releases

Any alert from your antivirus regarding this application is a false positive, caused by how the application operates. To resolve this, manually add APKToolGUI.exe to your antivirus’s whitelist or exclusion list.

If you remain unsure, you can compile the app yourself or refrain from using it until you confirm its safety with your antivirus provider.

• Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit and above
• Java or JDK 8 or above. Using latest JDK is not really necessary. Java 8 and 17 (long-term support release) is enough. Use 64-bit version if your system is 64-bit
• .NET Framework 4.8 (Windows 8 and above already have it preinstalled)

• Decompile & compile APK using Apktool
• Decompile APK/XAPK/APKS/ZIP/APKM & compile APK using APKEditor.jar. Automatically detect if APK was decompiled using Apktool or APKEditor
• Merge XAPK/APKS/ZIP/APKM using APKEditor.jar
• Sign APK
• Zipalign APK
• ADB
• Framework
• Drag and drop
• APK info
• Log output
• All other features from Apktool.
• Fix some Apktool errors, such as removing DUMMY_APKTOOL, clear framework before decompiling
• Multi language
• Right-click context menu
• Create unsigned APK for Core Patch
• High DPI support
• Long path support (Windows 10 and above)

• English
• Brazilian Portuguese (Incomplete)
• Hungary (Incomplete)
• Russian (Incomplete)
• Chinese Simplified (Incomplete)
• German

If you like to help translate with your native language, I recommend using Visual Studio 2022. You don't need any programming knowledge, you just edit the GUI and the .resx files

Create new .resx file under Languages folder, and Forms/FormXXX.cs/. To create a new .resx under Forms/FormXXX.cs/, open the form and select the form to show the properties. In the properties, scroll down until you see Language, and select any language you would like to translate.

If you can't use Visual Studio, you can use translator tools like resxtranslator or RESX Translator automat, but make sure the .resx file is added to APKToolGUI.csproj, otherwise Visual Studio would not be able to detect it

3rd party tools can't be translated.

Make pull request when you are done

Issues with Apktool? Please do cursory search of the issue tracker of Apktool and Baksmali, see if your question may be answered

For Framework/system apps related issues, check on XDA Forum

Some apps may been protected or obfuscated for content protection purposes or against cheaters. Bypassing of such is beyond the scope of this tool, so please DO NOT post an issue regarding to it. This tool does not support bypassing such protections, and never will be!

Anything else, create a new issue

Microsoft has not made it easy to port, and .NET Core remains impractical for this purpose. While I could use Avalonia UI as an alternative, I currently don’t have the time to port the entire project. Pull requests are welcome!

In the meantime, you can use WineHQ or similar tools to run the .exe file.

Download Apktool.jar and replace it on Resources folder

Download Baksmali.jar/Smali.jar and replace it on Resources folder

Simply delete the config.xml file from the directory of the executeable

No, I do not provide support for APK modding.

No, I'm not interested.

No, APKTool is designed for decompiling and recompiling APKs, not for converting between formats. AAB (Android App Bundle) is used exclusively for distributing apps on the Google Play Store and is not directly installable on devices.

If you need to convert an APK to AAB, you can try using a tool like APK2AAB

No, APK protection is beyond the scope of this tool.

No, these features are also beyond the scope of this tool. I do not support or condone bypassing such protections.

This project is written in C#

Use Visual Studio 2019 and above. NET Framework 4.8 SDK is required

• AndnixSH
• INF1NUM (Original author of APKToolGUI)
• iBotPeaches (Apktool CLI)
• REAndroid (APKEditor)

Same as Apktool by iBotPeaches, It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom platforms and other GOOD purposes. Just try to be fair with authors of an app, that you use and probably like.

The original repo does not have a license but I have permission from the author to use ane distribute this project as "open source"... I don't know what license to use so I'll just add license as unlicensed