APK Sorter

Mange APK/APKs etc.. and make them more recognisable, by renaming them with their own identifiers.

Features:

• Supports any APK format.
• Supports any language.
• Very safe on files.
• Detect category of APK.
• Detect signatrue of APK.
• Store various versions of same APK by creating a library.

How to install:

1. Install AAPT:

• Linux:

curl -L https://dl.google.com/android/repository/build-tools_r34-rc3-linux.zip -o ~/build-tools.zip
unzip -x ~/build-tools.zip aapt -d ~
rm ~/build-tools.zip
chmod +x ~/build-tools/aapt
sudo cp ~/build-tools/aapt /usr/bin/aapt

• macOS:

curl -L https://dl.google.com/android/repository/build-tools_r34-rc3-macosx.zip -o ~/build-tools.zip
unzip -x ~/build-tools.zip aapt -d ~
rm ~/build-tools.zip
chmod +x ~/build-tools/aapt
sudo cp ~/build-tools/aapt /usr/bin/aapt

• Windows:

1. Install MSYS2.
2. Download build-tools: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/build-tools_r34-rc3-windows.zip
3. Open downloaded archive and extract aapt into: C:\msys2\usr\bin

2. Install depends:

• Linux:

apt-get update && apt install unzip

• macOS (brew):

brew install unzip

• Windows (MSYS2):

pacman -S unzip

• termux-android.

pkg update && pkg install file unzip aapt -y

3. Install APK-Sorter:

git clone https://github.com/mast3rz3ro/apksorter ~/apksorter/apksorter && chmod +x ~/apksorter/apksorter.sh && cp ~/apksorter/apksorter.sh "$PREFIX/bin/apksorter"

How to use:

Current parameters:

 Usage: apksorter [parameters]

 Parameters:   Description:
        -i      Input directory (place where to find APK).
        -o      Output directory (place to store APK after renamed).
        -a      Archive mode (store APK in more reliable way).
        -c      Clean empty dirs (only used with archive mode).
        -g      generate identifiers (used for db).
	
	# Note: by default apksorter renames apk into their own directory
	# however you can override this behaivor by using -o switch

Examples:

• Rename within any place whereinput directory exists.

$ ls
input
$ apksorter
$ ls
input renamed

• Rename without creating the input directory:

$ apksorter -i /some/folder

• Override the output directory:

d$ apksorter -i /some/folder -o /some/other/newdir

• Archive APK in default directory of apk-sorter:

$ apksorter -a -i /somedir/otherdir
  # Android: /sdcard/Android/media/APK-Library
  # Linux: ~/APK-Library

• Enable archive mode:

$ apksorter -i /some/folder -o /some/other/newdir -a

• Enable verbosity mode:

$ export verbose=yes

	# Note: To detect errors quickly see: "opertion.log" which is stored on ~tmp directory.

Feature plans:

• Please keep note that the apksorter must remain efficient, lightwight and simple. and by lightwight I mean to not use any heavy size external tools such as apksigner which relies on jdk.

• Improve signatrue detection.

• Improve category detection.

• json file for categories

• Add workaround to identify & repack Split-APK folder.

• Add repack feature.

Reference:

• Android SDK: https://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com/p/android-sdk-build-tools.html