I'm in a little over my head. I just want to decompile an apk to find a short string of characters that will start with an asterisk.

I've found some other instructions on how to install apk2gold on ubuntu and it appears to be installed, but, I get a command not found error and I can't find the directory apk2gold that was created.

I am running linux mint15 and I have installed python, git, mercurial,jdk and jdk devel using the package manager. Then I ran:

git clone https://github.com/lxdvs/apk2gold.git cd apk2gold git submodule init git submodule update ./make.sh

When I do:

apk2gold # dir

I get:

apk2gold apktool dex2jar-0.0.9.12 jd-cli linux make.sh osx README.md rreassoc.py

but when I look for this directory (apk2gold) with my file manager so I can put my apk file there as well I can't find it.

when I try to run it I get this:

apk2gold # apk2gold FP.apk apk2gold: command not found

or as root

apk2gold FP.apk

apk2gold: command not found

Pretty obvious from running ./make.sh, which gives this output:

Submodule 'jd-cli' (https://github.com/lxdvs/jd-core-java.git) registered for path 'jd-cli'
Cloning into 'jd-cli'...
remote: Counting objects: 91, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (64/64), done.
remote: Total 91 (delta 14), reused 91 (delta 14)
Unpacking objects: 100% (91/91), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'jd-cli': checked out '560a13172520454c904a7b2ee6920cf144b92d11'
mvn package
make: mvn: No such file or directory
make: *** [target/jd-core-java-1.0.jar] Error 1

But I just figured the documentation should mention it.

Recently I sent pull request to the original jd-core-java repository: nviennot/jd-core-java#3 This PR fixed the issue on the case-insensitive file system like OS X. Originally, jd-core-java did not consider case-insensitive file system, decompiled class A could overwrite existing decompiled a class.

Can you merge this change into your fork as well? I believe this would be helpful to apk2gold users including me.

The API 21 build tools generate a differently formatted apk. Apktool needs to be updated.

I can reproduce the issue with new projects created with android studio and also this apk: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/gmail/gmail-5-0-1566562-apk/

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.173 s [INFO] Finished at: 2016-05-26T18:43:38+05:30 [INFO] Final Memory: 7M/309M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/Users/demo/Desktop/apk2gold-master/jd-cmd). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException cp: jd-cli/target/jd-cli.jar: No such file or directory /Users/demo/Desktop/apk2gold-master

I was just using this tool to decompile an apk, and the version of apktool you've got included (2.0.0RC2) blows up with a null pointer exception.

When I substituted apktool 2.1.0, it worked beautifully!