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by tosti 82 days ago
Makes sense for an apk to be a zip file. Apps were supposed to be written in Java and that has always shipped binaries in zip files (jar or war).
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bombcar 82 days ago
There are many "file formats" that are just relabelled zips - the hard part is always reconstructing it after making a change.
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tosti 82 days ago
That's because zip is really just the first layer.
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