APKtools (APK Studio) Could not decode arsc file

Question

I am tring to decompile an APK with AKP-Studio (it uses Apktool 2.0.0-Beta9) but on every APK I get this error:

May 05, 2015 5:38:30 PM brut.androlib.ApkDecoder decode

INFO: Using Apktool 2.0.0-Beta9 on com.****-1.apk

May 05, 2015 5:38:30 PM brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources loadMainPkg

INFO: Loading resource table...

Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Could not decode arsc file

at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:54)

at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:604)

at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:74)

I checked it on different systems with different versions of windows (64 and 32 bit)

My java version is: "1.8.0_45"

Please let me know if have any solution for this.

Answer 1

You must have to download apktoo_2.0.0rc file. then after You can decompile your apk file and will not get arcs file error.

You can download latest file version from Here

Now Rename your "apktool_2.0.0rc4.jar" to "apktool.jar".

Now delete old "apktool.jar" file from your apktool folder.

UPDATE:
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For Windows users, it's located in:

C:\Users\yourusername\.apkstudio\vendor 

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Now put this new "apktool.jar" file in your apktool folder where old "apktool.jar" was placed.

now same run your cmd commands like apktool if framework-res.apk

and next

apktool d "your appname.apk without quotes"

and keep smile..