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since version 2.8.1-1 android-apktool is built from sources

@14mRh4X0r nice catch, fixed

Please consider adding --no-daemon to the gradle invocation. The daemon is meant to speed up consecutive builds (i.e. has no benefit), and leaves a Java process running in the background after packaging.

since version 2.8.1-1 android-apktool is built from sources

@bemxio thanks for the suggestion. The bin package was created and added to AUR. I'll wait a bit to see if there is any traction or issue with it, and then try to request a merge.

@jnbrains I think it will be best to make the android-apktool-bin package and then send a merge request for this package. I can join as a co-maintainer, too!

Here's an example for the updated version (2.8.1) with few minor fixes/cleanups:

# Maintainer: Muflone http://www.muflone.com/contacts/english/
# Contributor: navigaid <navigaid@gmail.com>

pkgname=android-apktool-bin
pkgver=2.8.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files'
arch=('any')
url='https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool'
license=('Apache')
depends=('java-runtime>=8')
conflicts=('android-apktool' 'android-apktool-git')
source=("https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/releases/download/v${pkgver}/apktool_${pkgver}.jar"
        'apktool')
noextract=("apktool_${pkgver}.jar")
sha256sums=('7b4a8e1703e228d206db29644b71141687d8a111b55b039b08b02dfa443ab0f9'
            'f1d4cf2eb2d12512dbbe583cd7fb35b8b8a44e0e3a1d5e88015ab01d9bc1ce62')

package() {
  install -Dm 0755 "${srcdir}/apktool" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/apktool"
  install -Dm 0644 "${srcdir}/apktool_${pkgver}.jar" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}/apktool.jar"
}

• the package name should end with -bin, as it comes as a prebuilt jar
• apktool can be easily distributed with PKGBUILD, with the 'libdir' change applied. The script hasn't been updated since 2015, and I don't expect it to be. That way you get one less external dependency and better control of arch specific setup.
• no need to waste time/resources to extract the jar file, as it's going to be used as it is.

Cheers

@muflone Latest version is v2.7.0. Patch is below.

 # Contributor: navigaid <navigaid@gmail.com>

 pkgname=android-apktool
-pkgver=2.6.1
+pkgver=2.7.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="a tool for reengineering Android apk files"
 arch=('any')
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ license=('Apache')
 depends=('java-runtime')
 source=("https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/releases/download/v${pkgver}/apktool_${pkgver}.jar"
         "http://connortumbleson.com/apktool/googlecode/apktool-install-linux-r04-brut1.tar.bz2")
-sha256sums=('bc2b9a87ac5a86905b6ca343c21a0db3bc37bdd51154bc9cdf65523d95895d34'
+sha256sums=('c11b5eb518d9ac2ab18e959cbe087499079072b04d567cdcae5ceb447f9a7e7d'
             'cffa5c0a46bab9c66da02cc5db651c3a8321bee98580815e44c802d62a696dfa')

 prepare() {

@Muflone please update to v2.6.1

In addition to updating the package to 2.6.1, the source for apktool-install-linux-r04-brut1.tar.bz2 may need to be changed. When I tried installing just now connortumbleson.com was down. The file is currently still available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20220309133050/https://connortumbleson.com/apktool/googlecode/apktool-install-linux-r04-brut1.tar.bz2