android-manifest-puller

An interactive Go CLI that pulls an installed app's base APK off a connected Android device and dumps its merged AndroidManifest.xml — to verify what actually shipped (embedded API keys, permissions, meta-data) vs. what the source tree says.

Requirements

• adb (platform-tools) on PATH
• Android SDK build-tools (for aapt2) — auto-detected under $ANDROID_HOME, $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, or ~/Library/Android/sdk
• A device connected with USB debugging enabled

Build

go build -o android-manifest-puller .

Usage

Interactive (default)

./android-manifest-puller

1. Pick a device — shown by friendly name (e.g. Google Pixel 7 — 38071FDJG007QW) where the device reports one. Skipped automatically if only one is attached, or pass -s <serial>.
2. Pick a package — a filterable list of everything installed:
   • Start typing to narrow it down (/-style fuzzy filter).
   • The app's display name is resolved lazily under the package id when you pause on a row.
   • Press x to exclude namespaces — enter comma-separated prefixes like com.google, com.samsung to hide those packages (com.google.* works too). esc back to devices (when you picked one), or quit.
3. Read the manifest — the manifest is reformatted into clean, indented XML (namespace URIs collapsed to their prefix, resource-id hex dropped). Type to live-filter (case-insensitive, with surrounding context, like grep -B1 -A2); ↑/↓ to scroll; esc to go back to the package picker.

Non-interactive

# Dump filtered to stdout (implies non-interactive)
./android-manifest-puller -p com.ceofficesolutions.zuwa -g API_KEY

# Full manifest to stdout
./android-manifest-puller -p com.ceofficesolutions.zuwa --plain

# Positional args (compatible with the old shell script)
./android-manifest-puller com.ceofficesolutions.zuwa API_KEY

Flags

Flag	Description
-p, --package	Package name to dump (skips the picker)
-g, --grep	Case-insensitive filter with context (implies non-interactive)
-s, --serial	Device serial (skips the device picker)
--plain	Print to stdout without the interactive UI