iOS Reverse Engineering
ipa
package analysis
ipa
package analysisipa
is essentially a zip
file.
ipa
file root structures
ipa
file root structuresiTunes Artwork
--a PNG app icon for showing in iTunes and the App Store.iTunesMetadata.plist
—Contains copyright information, release date, purchase date, name of the developer and company who created it, etc./Payload/Application.app
To repack the
ipa
, simple select the three files and folder listed above and right click and select compress. TheArchive.zip
you get can be install usingideviceinstaller
. You can also rename the file name you wanted.
You can also use script.
cd <the-directory-that-store-the-three-files-and-folder>
zip -0 -y -r out.ipa .
#or use
zip -0 --symlinks --recurse-paths out.ipa .
# the `out.ipa` is the result
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