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What is apk-patchx?

apk-patchx is a command-line tool that makes APK manipulation fast, modular, and developer-friendly.
Whether you’re a security researcher, reverse engineer, or power user — it gives you a one-stop solution for:

  • Pulling & merging split APKs directly from connected Android devices
  • Decoding & rebuilding APKs with apktool
  • Injecting Frida gadgets into any architecture (arm, arm64, x86, x86_64)
  • Patching smali/dex code with your own hooks
  • Auto-signing APKs for immediate deployment
  • ️ Custom decode/build options for advanced workflows

apk-patchx Terminal Example

Installation

pip install apk-patchx

Usage

Pull APK from device

apk-patchx pull com.example.app

Decode APK

apk-patchx decode app.apk

Build APK from source

apk-patchx build app_src/

Patch APK with Frida gadget

apk-patchx patch app.apk --arch arm64

Rename APK package

apk-patchx rename app.apk com.newpackage.name

Sign APK

apk-patchx sign app.apk

Architecture Support

  • ARM (arm)
  • ARM64 (arm64)
  • x86 (x86)
  • x86_64 (x86_64)

Requirements

  • Python 3.8+
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE 8+)
  • ADB (for device operations)

Tool Management

APK-Patchx automatically downloads and manages required tools in ~/.apk-patchx/tools/:

  • apktool
  • Android SDK build-tools
  • Platform tools (adb)
  • dexpatch
  • Frida gadgets

Looking for contributors and debugger

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

1 Comment

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Yeah, It's great for all type of apk manipulations like the merging of split apks, extracting apks, decompile apk with easier, frida-gadget injection and many more options... That makes it good choice for security researchers...

But it's in development mode, there i got some bugs on it mainly during the frida-gadget injection, for complex apps which obfuscate there MainActivity class, there it sometimes patch into different path (late running smali) , have some minor issues in apktool version compatibility (something like usage of newer command args on older versions).
But rest of it the structure is well maintained and runnable with some manual tweaks...

So was just looking for contributors to make this tool error free even better for everyone.

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