[Android General] TheDrive:
Thank for app development! There is a problem managing 'all these' various APK files.

People are forced to trust Google because 'he knows' what they want.

I do know what I want myself and I do NOT trust Google nor its services,

I don't have any 'accounts' nor and 'ID's' nor visit and use any 'valuable useful services'

(useful just to steal my data, control me and make me stupid idiot, happy to 'tap the screen').

I simply do myself what I need to do as good as millions of people did it just I 10 years ago.

So I'm 'forced' (by my own wish and for my pleasure and benefits) to manage all these 'tons of APK's'.

So I found your app very useful for People.

But...

Sorry dmagician, your App doesn't work on Win XP, at all...

Please!!! Don't state I should try 'all there beautiful and miracle modern systems' like Win7-Win10

I have already did. :) I do repair PC's as my job for a nearly 30 years and so I do repair ANY Win systems (not reinstall them) for minutes and hours from any condition, most people will assume as non repairable in a lifetime.

So I prefer XP as it is 'modern enough' to support valuable techs and API's, requires far less resources, works fast enough in most cases, leads to the far less problems, most compatible than any other Win OS ever with any SW released for the all the times (incl DOS), not just a 'last year', and also, it's far more secure relatively to the newer Win OS's, simply because it doesn't send 'all' the my valuable personal data to M$ (and other 'interested' orgs), but just a 'small part' of them. :) I don't like the 'Matrices', as far as I don't like a lie.

This beautiful screen I get as soon as I try to launch ANY of the APKSpy versions attached to this topic (1.7 1.8 1.8.2).

I can't exclude that something 'wrong' with my system but there is no problems with starting any other .Net apps, including many ones, required .Net 4.5 I've simply binary patched to 'require' .Net 4.0

It's always better to use 'normal' programming languages and compilers like C[++] or Pascal (others?) instead of 'simple' Java/.Net crap to build good and reliable apps containing a real binary code, designed for particular HW, require adequate resources amount and working 'quick and smooth'. Trust me! I'm NOT a Matrix, I'm a real live man.

Original APKSpy 0.6 occupies 36KB, starts for a second and works like a charm, but lacks valuable, 'very wanted' options like APK's Android version/API required/recommended (with patching - why not?) and others.

Why not to make a tool to patch ANY of the all the f...n manifest fields which mostly prevent me simply run code I want to run on my OWN computer neither help me to be on the 'safe side'.

App crash dump attached. M$ wanted to send it to their own site, so it tried to prevent me to explore the dump myself. .Net has a good 'protection' from a legal user. When you'll find a dump/report in your %TEMP% folder you'll not be able to read it nor copy to another location. Even the well known Unlocker app is unable to do a thing with file because it's very valuable to M$ to let you explore it yourself. So I simply ran Disk Editor tool and copied file from the sectors it written to. You can use some minidump related tool to explore.

View attachment APKSpy_XP_Crash_Dump.zip

Update:

I just explored the original APKSpy v0.6 and found it was also compiled with .Net, but v2.0. :)

I don't know where such an excessive size difference and execution problems came from, but it's really sad anyway. May be there is a chance to reconstruct/recompile with .Net 2.0 as a simple try.

It's always difficult do debug apps that work ob the virtual non-existent CPU in a virtual non-existent environment... When you write in C/Pas/Asm you always can look what the code is really doing in the real CPU environment... It seems to be far more simple in most cases to locate a problem in a real code for me, neither to explore all these monster Java-related structures. when you never know what's going on in reality.