Introduction

Apktool consists of and uses several projects:

• apktool
• apktool.lib - main project, contains 95% of apktool's code.
• apktool.cli - cli interface to apktool.lib.
• apktool.smali - fork of JesusFreke's smali tool - it adds few features required by apktool.
• brut.j.dir, brut.j.util, brut.j.common - some utility projects used by apktool.lib .

Sources of all above projects are hosted on github: http://github.com/brutall , all of them are Maven projects and they're stored in Maven repo: http://android-apktool.googlecode.com/svn/m2-releases/ , so you don't have to build all of them, if you don't want to.

Also you need aapt installed to your PATH in order to build apktool. You can extract it from Android SDK or from proper apktool-install-* package.

Build apktool only, use prebuilt dependencies

In most cases this is what you want. Most of interesting bits are in apktool project and there is no much sense in building 4 dependencies manually.

### Download apktool sources
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.apktool.git apktool
$ cd apktool

### Build
$ mvn package

### Maven will download all dependencies and build apktool.
### Apktool executable will be in: apktool-cli/target/ dir
$ java -jar apktool-cli/target/apktool-cli-1.3.3-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-deps.jar
Apktool v1.3.2 - a tool for reengineering Android apk files
(...)

Build all subprojects

If you want to build all subprojects, e.g. if there were some new commits to dependencies, then:

### Download, build & install brut.j.common
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.j.common.git brut.j.common
$ cd brut.j.common
$ mvn install
$ cd ..

### Download, build & install brut.j.util
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.j.util.git brut.j.util
$ cd brut.j.util
$ mvn install
$ cd ..

### Download, build & install brut.j.dir
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.j.dir.git brut.j.dir
$ cd brut.j.dir
$ mvn install
$ cd ..

### Download, build & install brut.apktool.smali
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.apktool.smali.git brut.apktool.smali
$ cd brut.apktool.smali
$ mvn install
$ cd ..

### Download, build & install brut.apktool
$ git clone git://github.com/brutall/brut.apktool.git brut.apktool
$ cd brut.apktool
$ mvn package


### Apktool executable will be in: apktool-cli/target/ dir
$ java -jar apktool-cli/target/apktool-cli-1.3.3-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-deps.jar
Apktool v1.3.2 - a tool for reengineering Android apk files
(...)

You could skip any of these subprojects and Maven will download them automatically.