Thanks for the response.

But my question is is AndroidManifest.xml is mandatory to provide to
the aapt tool to do any operation( configuration change) on the apk.


On Apr 22, 10:35 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> The actual file on the device is a compiled binary representation of the
> original XML file.  You could in theory write some tool that modifies the
> binary, but aapt is only able to generate that binary from a valid source
> file.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Google_Android_discussion <
>
> vikram.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I would like to make some configuration changes to the apk, Does the
> > AndroidManifest.xml is a mandatory file required from the source
> > ( since the AndroidManifest.xml in APK cannot be reused) to make the
> > changes to the apk using the aapt tool.
>
> > Br,
> > Vikram Dattu
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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