So I have been tinkering around with a few android apps. For some reason the text within them looks like a bunch of random symbols almost like garbage text. I tried messing around with the unicode but I can't figure out what's causing this. Thoughts??
CodePudding user response：
The AndroidManifest.xml file is only XML in the source code. Once you compile the app, it gets compiled into a binary format that is more efficient for the Android platform to read from.
This format is undocumented but there are multiple attempts at reverse engineering the source code, e.g. https://justanapplication.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/android-internals-binary-xml-part-one-example/
Or if all you need is see what's in the manifest, you can simply use aapt2 (shipped as part of Android platform tools) with the command aapt2 dump xmltree app.apk --file AndroidManifest.xml