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apkanalyzer cannot parse the version name of my app

In a pipeline, I would like to extract from an APK I build the following information:
the version name of my app
the version code of my app
the application id of my app
According to this documentation, I can use the apkanalyzer command line tool in order to extract these information from my APK file.
First, I tried to get all these information with this commande line:
./apkanalyzer apk summary 'my.apk'
But the result is not the one I expect:
unknown 0 ?
So, I tried to use the manifest verb instead of the apk one:
./apkanalyzer manifest version-code 'my.apk'
2011100022
The result is the one I want. So I tried:
./apkanalyzer manifest application-id 'my.apk'
com.my.package
The result is the one I want too. To finish, I tried:
./apkanalyzer manifest version-name 'my.apk'
?
As you can, the result is not the one I want.
I laso tried to display the whole manifest using the command line:
./apkanalyzer manifest print 'my.apk'
In the result, into the <manifest /> tag, I can see the following attributes and values:
android:versionCode="2011100022"
android:versionName="1.5.6-API-29"
package="com.mypackage
So as you see, all the needed information are correctly displayed into the manifest.
Note that the APK is a release one and all the information are also correctly displayed in the "apkanalyzer UI tools" in Android Studio:
So my question is: how can I display correctly the version name of my app using the apkanalyzer command line?

App Refuses to Install - INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY

I am new to programming generally please I need some help!
My app was installing successfully after every update until i decided to add the 'com.github.PhilJay:MPAndroidChart:v3.1.0-alpha' library to the app because i need the user to be able to view some data in form of statistical charts.
The library was synced successfully and have used packages and classes therein successful. But when i try to install the app in my android device it returned this error:
Installation failed with message Failed to commit install session 590492354 with command cmd package
install-commit 590492354. Error: INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY: Package couldn't be installed in
/data/app/com.cenitscitech.www.etimebook-jOP-jv2YuNu7_8qnkfqp-A==: Package com.cenitscitech.www.etimebook requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.things; failing!.
It is possible that this issue is resolved by uninstalling an existing version of the apk if it is present, and then re-installing." I have pasted a screenshot here:
I uninstalled the existing version of the apk, cleared some memory space but keep on getting the same message! What should I do next please?

You are most likely installing on a device that is not an Android Things device. I suspect the library you added either has some transitive dependency on com.google.android.things, or something else changed in your project.
To get around this, you must do the following 2 things:
1. Mark that Android Things is not required on the device in your AndroidManifest.xml file:
<uses-library
android:name="com.google.android.things"
android:required="false"
tools:replace="android:required" />
(tools:replace is not strictly required, but it just there in case something in the manifest merge process overrides your setting.)
2. In your app's code, before making any calls to the Things APIs, make sure that they are available on the current device. This can be tested with the following code snippet:
public boolean isThingsDevice(Context context) {
final PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
return pm.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_EMBEDDED);
}
Only doing 1 should fix the install problem, but your app will crash if you make any Things API calls on a device that isn't an Android Things device.

Had a look in the com.github.PhilJay:MPAndroidChart:v3.1.0-alpha repository and did not find any reference to com.google.android.things inside the source code.
You need to remove the below entry in case it's found in the AndroidManifest.xml of your app for it to work on your device again:
<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.things" />

The problem of not installing application on google play

When I uploaded it to google play, I got a com.example error, and then I typed another name instead of example and fixed all the places. I also corrected the package name in the google service json file. But it does not receive an error but when I run the application I get a "myappname" is stopped error. I have no idea what the problem is. What could it be? Where did the missing or wrong?
places where I make correction;
package names in all activity and fragments
googleservice.json file
package name in manifest
What is the problem?

You need to update in your build.gradle file like this
android {
applicationId "your.new.domain"
}
And then, Sync the project.

new blackberry app world error "bar manifest file package version must be greater than ..."

I've started getting a weird error message when trying to upload a playbook app update to BlackBerry world. I think this problem started after installing version 1.6.1 of their eclipse plugin.
The error message:
"The package version in your .bar manifest file for signals_playbook must be greater than the previous version, but lower than any the next release version added to the vendor portal. . Your .bar manifest file package version must be greater than 3.0. Correct your .bar manifest file and try again to continue."
My AndroidManifest.xml contains:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="ca.rcp.mobile.cror.signals"
android:versionCode="7"
android:versionName="3.1" >
The Manifest file contained within the BAR shows this info:
Archive-Manifest-Version: 1.1
Archive-Created-By: Apk2Bar version 1.6.1
Package-Author: xxxxxxxx
Package-Author-Id: some hash xxxxxxxxx
Package-Name: xxxxx.cror.signals
Package-Id: some hash xxxxxxxxx
Package-Version: 1.0.7.1
Package-Version-Id: some hash xxxxxxxx
Package-Type: application
Package-Architecture: armle-v7
Package-Author-Certificate-Hash: some hash xxxxx
Application-Name: Railway Signals
Application-Id: some hash xxxxxxxx
Application-Version: 1.0.7.1
Application-Version-Id: some hash xxxxxxxxxxx
Application-Requires-System: Tablet OS/2.0.0.7109
My system:
Windows 7 x64 using Eclipse 3.7.2 with latest ADT and updates.
I can see why BlackBerry world is complaining, it thinks the version number is 1.0.7.1. How do I get it to show 3.1.0.0??
I tried editing the manifest file contained within the bar, saving it and resubmitting. But that didn't work (didn't think it would but was worth a try).
Does anyone know where is the 1.0.7.1 coming from?
Can I override it?
Thanks
Rob

We suddenly started having the same problem with our builds. Evidently something changed in the BlackBerry build tools. Try setting the application's android:versionName attribute to a 4-part value (such as 3.1.0.1). BlackBerry has always used this format (major.minor.micro.build) for native apps. It seems that unless your Android manifest has the same format, the BlackBerry build tools fail to parse the versionName attribute and use a fall-back. From what I can tell, the fall-back is to use the value of android:versionCode as the micro version in a default application version code; that is it sets the app version in the .bar file manifest to
1.0.<android:versionCode value>.1
(I sure wouldn't want to be the engineer that had to defend implementing this behavior.)
An alternative approach is to create a custom manifest file that has the app version you want. Create a file named MANIFEST.MF in the same directory as AndroidManifest.xml. Then add the specific .bar manifest entries you want. For instance, it might be:
Archive-Manifest-Version: 1.1
Package-Version: 3.1.0.0
Application-Version: 3.1.0.0
Then open the project properties in Eclipse, navigate to BlackBerry, and for the "Custom BAR Manifest" drop-down, select "Add custom values (merge)".

Thank you, Ted!
There is another link on this topic;
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-World-Development/The-package-version-in-your-bar-manifest-file-for-New-Bundle/td-p/2754567
We started to notice problem after move to Gradle:
Before
AndroidManifest.xml:
android:versionCode="1312310309" android:versionName="2.28.4"
MANIFEST.MF:
Application-Version: 14.1231.309.0
After
AndroidManifest.xml:
android:versionCode="134" android:versionName="2.30.31402271059"
MANIFEST.MF
Application-Version: 1.0.134.0

I also had the same problem but I fixed it by adding this line in my Android Manifest file android:versionCode="30" previously I had android:versionCode="29" so upgraded it by one .And the problem got fixed for me.

Cyrillic app name incorrectly encoded during porting Android app to Blackberry

I have small problem with displaying cyrillic app name on PlayBook and BB10 simulator. Looks like it's incorrectly encoded from russian.
Problem appeared after updating bb eclipse plugin from version 1.3 to 1.5, with plugin v.1.3 it worked just ok.
I'll appreciate any help or ideas.
Here is screenshot from bb10 simulator:

I found workaround myself.
When I got problems with encodding with bb eclipse plugin, I decided to do the same thing with comandline tools.
After tools setup (sing keys, debug tokens, etc), I've tried to repackage my apk file with this command (source apk file was in apk/ folder and destination for bar file was bar/ folder)
./apk2bar apk/ -d bbplaybookdebugtoken.bar -t bar/ -a "zasadnyy" -cg
When I've got .bar file, I've installed it with command:
/batchbar-deploy bar/ 192.168.1.35 mysecretpass
Unfortunatelly result was unsuccsessful, app name was incorrectly encoded again. After first fail I've read documentation a bit more and tried to use this approach: http://developer.blackberry.com/android/documentation/creating_a_custom_manifest_file_2016828_11.htm...
When I unzipped bar file and opened MANIFEST.MS - I've found this line:
Application-Name: –ì–µ—Ä–æ–∏
According to documentation solution should be quite strainforward:
1. Rename MANIFEST.MS to <you apk name>.mf
2. Update incorrect properties, in my case I've changed line from above to "Application-Name: Герои"
3. Put edited manifest file in the same folder as <your apk name>.apk and rerun apk2bar tool with **-m** parameter, e.g.:
./apk2bar apk/ -d bbplaybookdebugtoken.bar -t bar/ -a "zasadnyy" -m -cg
Repackage, deploy, run and ..... and again FAIL. Application name was "–ì–µ—Ä–æ–∏".
After second fail, I decided to make dirty hack, I've edited MANIFEST.MF directly in repackaged bar file (Unzip -> edit manifest -> zip -> change file extension to .bar).
Deploy updated .bar file to playbook and .... YEAH, we've got cyrilic app name!
Conclusion and FIX:
Looks like in 1.5 release if apk2bar tool manifest encoding is misconfigured (in ver. 1.3 it worked just ok)
In oder to FIX issue: Unzip unsigned bar file -> edit manifest -> zip -> change file extension back to .bar

I had the same problem I believe, but the symptoms have been different. I was not even able to install the app on my test device and explicitly running blackberry-signer -verify confronted me with the Invalid signature file digest for Manifest. error.
The MANIFEST.MF file seems to be properly encoded in utf-8 by the apk2bar tool, but the following signing process seems to read this using the platform's default encoding. I added the following java parameter to the blackberry-signer.bat as well as the apk2bar.bat batch file scripts of the command line tools to make it work properly:
-Dfile-encoding=utf-8
(This is for version 1.5.2 of the tools)