ANDROAXML(1)

okay bestie 💖 this is the ANDROAXML(1) page, filed under User Commands 🎀 and it's giving Android reverse engineering and pentesting realness ✨

✨ NAME ✨

androaxml - Reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

androaxml [OPTIONS] [FILE_]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Heads up, bestie! 🙈 You might see this Python warning pop up. It's coming from androguard's own code, so it's not you:

/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/androguard/core/bytecodes/apk.py:1039:
SyntaxWarning: "\>" is an invalid escape sequence. Such sequences will
not work in the future. Did you mean "\\>"? A raw string is also an
option.

Thus specifying {"name": "foobar"} will match on <bla name="foobar" \>. 💜

Main mission: parse the AndroidManifest.xml 📱

You can parse it directly or pull it out of a given APK, and then it either prints the XML in your terminal or saves it to a file. So cute 🌸

Bonus slay: it can also process any AXML encoded file, like stuff from the layout directory ✨

Here's the vibe:

$ androguard axml AndroidManifest.xml

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -i, --input FILE — the AndroidManifest.xml or APK you want to parse. This is the legacy option 🕰️
• -o, --output TEXT — the filename where the decoded AndroidManifest.xml gets saved. If you don't pick one, it defaults to stdout 🖥️
• -r, --resource TEXT — parse a resource instead of AndroidManifest.xml. Any binary XML file inside the APK is fair game 🧚
• --help — shows this message and exits 💀

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And that's the tea ☕ androaxml 3.4.0a1, September 2025 🌈 periodt, bye bestie 🫶💜