Share tagged readiness observations, retain partial provider facts, authenticate bridge identity, bound diagnostics, and preserve cancellation and lost-session reasons. Fail closed for unparsed MIPS ABI attributes and macOS saved Hopper databases without a script-capable bridge route.
Reviewed fixes: #2010, #2108, #2513, #2695, #2731, #2771, #2828, #2867, #2868, #2870, #2880, #2919, #2945, #2961, #2981, #2998, #3000, #3002.
Validation: 285 focused source/boundary tests passed. Real Ghidra, IDA, Linux Hopper, and Windows provider runs were not repeated.
BREAKING CHANGE: MIPS targets with unresolved GNU ABI attributes and saved Hopper databases on macOS are refused rather than advertised as supported.
* fix(apktool): resolve Windows PATH launchers before invocation
Resolve the default launcher through the selected PATH/PATHEXT before choosing native process creation or the existing conservative cmd.exe wrapper. Reuse the resulting selection and one canonical environment for the version probe and decode.
Follow-up to the release #1693 review of #1777. Source inspected and formatted; tests, builds, check reruns and real Windows Apktool execution were skipped at maintainer request.
* fix(apktool): bound lookup and retain only selected environment
Source inspection and targeted formatting only. Tests, builds, lint, typechecks and provider workloads were not run at the user's explicit request.
* fix(apktool): use supported timeout diagnostics
Retain lookup phase through AnalysisErrorOptions diagnostics while preserving the operation and timeout identity. Source inspection and targeted formatting only; tests, checks, builds and provider workloads were skipped at the user request.
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Co-authored-by: morluto <[email protected]>
Reconcile Mach-O UUID observations without hiding malformed or conflicting sources. Require source-map identity digests to be supported by consistent observations. Keep truncated Android manifests as partial raw evidence, validate WABT section framing, and reject missing JEB inventories or error-marked success replies.
Consolidate native UUID parsing and simplify capacity and malformed-input fixtures. Focused source and public workflow checks pass, including native arm64e inspection and real WABT framing probes; a successful real JEB GUI project opening remains unverified.
Parse Apktool YAML and XML at the producer boundary, preserving scalar spelling, XML text and partial string coverage. Retain repeated JADX inventory rows with explicit duplicate-name counts and lookup ambiguity. Make the Apktool verifier report cleanup failures.
Validation: parser, provider and JADX fixture boundary tests; typecheck, lint and documentation checks. Real Apktool and JADX engines were not exercised.
Refs #1978
Catch binary selection failures at the adapter boundary and share the domain error projection with apktool. Missing and relative adb paths now report capability_unavailable with host configuration guidance in both message and remediation.
Validation: ADB/apktool provider suites and public CLI refusal suites pass. No connected-device behavior changed or verified. Refs #1952.
A missing apktool launcher projected the generic "unavailable for the
current target" message and remediation, leaving the actual reason only
in details.reason. A relative REA_APKTOOL_COMMAND escaped as UNKNOWN
because command selection ran before the try that maps configuration
failures.
Resolve the selection inside that try for both execution and
availability, and pass the refusal reason as userMessage, as JADX and
the adapters fixed in #1224 do.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
On Windows, Node refuses to spawn .bat and .cmd files without a shell
(CVE-2024-27980), so REA_APKTOOL_COMMAND pointing at Chocolatey's
apktool.bat or a java -jar wrapper failed its version probe with EINVAL,
reported as "did not report a usable version".
Move Ghidra's conservative cmd.exe invocation (no AutoRun, no delayed
expansion, every token quoted, interpreter metacharacters rejected) into
src/process/WindowsBatchCommand.ts. Ghidra keeps its error type, wording
and length limit. apktool now uses it for both the version probe and the
decode run when the launcher is a batch file on Windows. A launcher that
cmd.exe would reinterpret reports launcher_unsupported (not_configured)
with remediation instead of version_unresolved.
Fixes#1774
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
format:check failed on ApktoolProvider; existingMaintenanceScope now
returns skillDestinations (consumed by maintenance planning), so pin
the field in the exact-shape scope assertions.
* feat(apktool): decode Android resource tables through a caller-supplied launcher
Add an Apktool family with two operations over the caller's apktool
launcher (REA_APKTOOL_COMMAND, absolute, or apktool on PATH):
- inspect_apktool_client: resolved launcher, selection source, and
version; decodes nothing.
- decode_android_resources: apktool d --no-src in a provider-owned
workspace that is removed before the result returns. Projects the
decoded AndroidManifest.xml (bounded at 512 KiB), apktool.yml version
and SDK facts exactly as printed, string resources verbatim (default or
one locale, bounded at 2000 entries, nested-markup entries counted as
unparsed), available string locales, and the decoded file count with a
hard cap. The target APK is digested with SHA-256 before decoding so
Evidence binds the observation to the exact input.
Smali production is skipped by design: Java-source recovery belongs to
the JADX family. Workspace cleanup happens before results return; an
unremovable workspace is named in the limitations instead of abandoned.
Verified against apktool 2.7.0-dirty (Debian packaging) on Linux with
OpenJDK 25 against a signed aapt2-built probe APK with two resource
locales: launcher version, on-disk digest agreement, metadata projection,
manifest package agreement, and both string tables (default and de).
Parser goldens come from the same decode. READMEs carry the new
'Android resources' row in every supported language.
* fix(apktool): own snapshots and bound decoded resource reads
* docs(apktool): describe owned resources and bounded projection
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Co-authored-by: REA Contributor <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: morluto <[email protected]>
morluto