apk-adbdump(8)

apk-adbdump8

Dump v3 files in textual representation

Usage

apk adbdump [<options> ...] files ...

Overview

apk adbdump will dump the metadata portion of given files (packages, indexes, installeddb) to its textual representation.

The output can be:

•

yaml with annotations as comment

•

json data blob

apk-adbgen(8) can convert the YAML textual representation back to the binary format with certain limitations (nested ADB and DATA blocks are not supported).

Options

--format FORMAT

Specify the output format (options: json, yaml)

From apk-tools 3.0.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.