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Bundletool is a command-line tool to manipulate Android App Bundles
https://g.co/androidappbundle
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Feature Request - Support parsing and re-serialization of AndroidManifest protobuffer file #237

Closed nreavesHRC closed 3 years ago

nreavesHRC commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently if a version code or other property of the AndroidManifest protobuf file is changed it requires manual parsing and re-serialization. It would be very helpful to have a command for the bundletool to support parsing and re-serializing the protobuf files.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd suggest an extension off of the bundletool to convert AndroidManifest and other protobuf files to xml and a re-serialization command to assemble them for bundling. Much like what the apktool does today.

Describe alternatives you've considered If APKs are available I believe there are workarounds using the apktool and inserting the AndroidManifest + using build-bundle but if you are trying to work with purely aab files then it would require parsing and re-serializing the protobuf file manually.

Additional context This issue is based off largely off of a stackoverflow discussion. Relevant link

ymakhno commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately we don't support patching commands in bundletool and don't have plans to support it.