Hey guys, I'd like to ask you a question about what would be the best application for editing IPTV or P2P apps.
APK EDITOR PRO, MT MANAGER, APK EDITOR STUDIO, APK EASY TOOL.
I mentioned about 4 above, which of these do you think is better and more stable for editing?
Don't think there's one tool that's the best. Main difference between the Android or Windows options is with Windows options like apktool/APK Easy Tool, APK Editor Studio, Android Studio you've got more powerful tools you can use alongside them to edit with if you know how to use them (Notepad++, or CLI tools etc, world's your oyster). I'll share what I think are pros and cons for each though...
Android
APK Editor Ultra -
Pros - Works on everything I've thrown at it (contrary to posts in the forum saying not to edit with APK Editor as it will break stuff; they'll have used different version I can only assume, I just decode partial files when doing a full edit, not sure if thats the difference either). Quickest and simplest way to swap images (or extract for putting on PC), it resizes your replacements then puts in the different drawable folders for you. Quick way to do package name and name change on apps (not as simple as just doing that for all apps but it gets a bit of the work out the way quickly). Better colour preview than MT Manager when you view colors.xml files.
Cons - If you're wanting to do a common edit, an image edit, then a full edit to change panel URL/DNS etc, youve gotta make a v1.apk for the common edit, then the image edit on that to make v2.apk and so on...
MT Manager
Pros - Powerful tool for an android app, file manager as well. The on-screen overlay colour picker plugins great as well if you're trying to rev eng. an apps colour hex codes so you can edit them with your own.
Cons - No quick image edit option. For a beginner or someone who only needs to do very basic editing, maybe a little more to wrap your head around to get used to than APK Editor.
Windows
APK Editor Studio
Pros - It's Windows so more powerful. I havent used this much as I prefer other ways but my only use case is it's good for quickly looking at an apps icons when you open an APK with it.
Cons - Not used it enough to find any.
APK Easy Tool
Pros - Nice little GUI for apktool, extracts the apk to a folder where you can use the tools in Windows you want to change it.
Cons - Editing this way means using multiple tools in Windows so is probably a bit more for intermediate/advanced users.
Android Studio
Pros - Probably the most powerful editing tool there is, has a nice GUI preview of the layout XML files for relatively easier editing of app layouts than editing the code manually.
Cons - When I say relatively easy, it's still a steep learning curve to learn your way around the software if you're a beginner and you still need to decompile the APK first with APK Easy Tool to use it.
Out of all of these though, which one you use depends on your use case or how deep down the rabbit hole you wanna go.
