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How does the Android market know our minimum SDK versions and permissions? The thing that I guess is, their server opens APK file and parse manifest.xml file. Then will find these two elements. Am I right?

I changed the extension of TestProject.apk to TestProject.zip then I extract it. I found manifest.xml and tried to open it but i was not successful. (in Windows, notepad and wordpad couldn't open it but I saw An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Users/Inf/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp...' when I opened it with IE).

I want to know, If I have an APK file can I modify it's manifest file directly or after compiling manifest will be encoded?

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    It's Decoded But You Can Encode It http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4191762/how-to-view-androidmanifest-xml-from-apk-file/4191807#4191807 – Synxmax Nov 21 '11 at 09:44
  • Thanks dear Synxmax, That was awesome. That tool was fine. Now, I changed my codes in manifest, how to encrypt it again? is there another tool? – Hesam Nov 21 '11 at 10:07
  • You can Recompile it using apktool again http://www.miui-au.com/add-ons/apktool/ – Synxmax Nov 21 '11 at 10:24

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