APK Parser

A pure-PHP library for reading Android application packages (.apk files). It parses the binary AndroidManifest.xml and resource table without any external tools, giving you access to the package name, version, SDK levels, permissions, activities, and more. It can also list every class defined in the app's dex files (multidex supported) using a native PHP dex parser — no Java required — and extract the APK's contents to a directory.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+ (tested on PHP 8.1 – 8.5)
• Extensions: zip, simplexml, libxml, json, mbstring

Installation

composer require evozi/apk-parser-php

Usage

Reading basic information

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$apk = new \ApkParser\Parser('MyApp.apk');
$manifest = $apk->getManifest();

echo $manifest->getPackageName();     // com.example.app
echo $manifest->getVersionName();     // 1.2.3
echo $manifest->getVersionCode();     // 10203
echo $manifest->getMinSdkLevel();     // 21
echo $manifest->getTargetSdkLevel();  // 34
echo $manifest->getMinSdk()->platform;    // e.g. "5.0 Lollipop"
var_dump($manifest->isDebuggable());  // false

Permissions

getPermissions() returns each permission with its description and cost/warning/danger flags:

foreach ($manifest->getPermissions() as $permission => $detail) {
    echo $permission . ': ' . $detail['description'] . PHP_EOL;

    if ($detail['flags']['danger']) {
        echo "  (dangerous permission)" . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

// Or just the raw android permission names:
foreach ($manifest->getPermissionsRaw() as $permission) {
    echo $permission . PHP_EOL; // e.g. android.permission.INTERNET
}

Activities and intent filters

foreach ($manifest->getApplication()->activities as $activity) {
    echo $activity->name . ($activity->isLauncher ? ' (Launcher)' : '') . PHP_EOL;
}

Listing classes from the dex files

Classes are read directly from classes.dex (and any classes2.dex, classes3.dex, … for multidex apps) with the built-in PHP dex parser:

foreach ($apk->getClasses() as $className) {
    echo $className . PHP_EOL; // e.g. com.example.app.MainActivity
}

Resources

// Resolve resource references from the manifest, e.g. the app label and icon
$label = $apk->getResources($manifest->getApplication()->getLabel());
echo $label[0];

$icons = $apk->getResources($manifest->getApplication()->getIcon());
foreach ($icons as $icon) {
    file_put_contents(basename($icon), stream_get_contents($apk->getStream($icon)));
}

// Resources can also be looked up by symbolic name instead of hex id —
// "string/app_name" and "@string/app_name" both work:
$appName = $apk->getResources('@string/app_name');

// Or fetch the entire resource table at once, indexed by hex resource id:
$all = $apk->getAllResources();

Extracting the APK contents

$apk->extractTo('/path/to/output');            // everything
$apk->extractTo('/path/to/output', $entries);  // or only specific entries

Raw manifest XML

echo $manifest->getXmlString(); // decoded, human-readable AndroidManifest.xml

Configuration

If you only need the manifest, skip parsing the resource table for a faster start-up:

$apk = new \ApkParser\Parser('MyApp.apk', ['manifest_only' => true]);

More runnable examples are available in the examples/ directory.

Testing

Tests are powered by PHPUnit and run on every push via GitHub Actions:

composer install
composer test

Or run everything inside Docker without a local PHP installation:

make docker-build    # build the PHP image
make docker-install  # composer install inside the container
make docker-check    # php -l + the full test suite

Credits

Originally based on tufanbarisyildirim/php-apk-parser by Tufan Baris Yildirim, maintained by Evozi.

License

APK Parser is MIT licensed.