find the manifest from the apk

Question

I read this thread and I find it very useful but my question is how can I find the manifest ?

I see files like a,b,c,d.... and so on, and only one named com, inside this com I have more files but I could not find the manifest

I am viewing with this jd-gui tool

Answer 1

You can use apktool to extract resources from APK and decode them from binary form.

Assuming that you followed installation instructions and using Windows - type in command line apktool d <YOUR_APK_NAME_HERE> - then it will unpack all resources from the application, including the manifest.