Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How to check if an APK has the flag android:debuggable="true"

Using the aapt tool you can check lots of things inside an apk. Use the following command:

aapt list -v -a myfile.apk

this shows hundreds of lines, but you must search the following text "android:debuggable"

this flag can have the values:

0x0: debuggable false
0xffffffff: debugabble true

in my case the entire line is the following

A: android:debuggable(0x0101000f)=(type 0x12)0xffffffff

Ups! My release build had the flag enabled ;)

Cheers,

Lula