Android app doesn't retrieve file names after modifying and recompiling package

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Because I have to display Vimeo videos in a project of mine for Android, 
I followed the instructions at 
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10267 to decompile my app, 
change the manifest file, recompile the app, and sign it. Unfortinately, 
the resulting apk is worse than the original.

I have "updated" an old Mac to Mac OS X 10.7.5. I have installed JDK 
1.7.0_72 on this Mac. I'm trying use a LiveCode standalone application 
on my old Android tablet with Android version 2.3.3.

The unmodified standalone, built with the option "sign for development 
only" runs fine on my tablet, but video won't display.

First, I built the app for Android, using LiveCode 6.6.2 for Windows. 
Then I copied it over to my Mac. I used

$ java -jar apktool.jar decode /Volumes/Macintosh\ 
HD/Users/Mark/Desktop/apk\ tool/MyApp.apk app

to decompile the apk file. It appeared in a folder with the name "app" 
in my Home directory, with sub directories:

app
	AndroidManifest.xml
	apktool.yml
	assets/
		doc/
		links.txt
		pic/
		vid/
			Demos/
			Examples/
			Other/
				Simple Animation.mp4
				Vimeo Pro Example.html
			Tutorials/
				SQL.html
	build/
	lib/
	res/
	smali/

The contents of the assets folder is included by LiveCode's standalone 
builder. I created all of these files and folders during project 
development. The folders in the vid folder contain several HTML files 
and one mp4 file. I have listed only a few of the html files in the file 
tree.

I changed the AndroidManifest.xml by replacing the line

<application android:label="MyApp" android:debuggable="false">

with

<application android:label="MyApp" android:debuggable="false" 
android:hardwareAccelerated="true">

After this, I rebuilt the app, using apktool again. I used sudo, because 
here http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10267 it said I had to 
use sudo:

$ sudo java -jar /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/Mark/Desktop/apk\ 
tool/apktool_1.5.2.jar b -a /Volumes/Macintosh\ 
HD/Developer/android-s-d-k-mac_x86/platform-tools/aapt

It appears that if you use sudo once, you have to use sudo all the time. 
So, now I had to sign it using

$ sudo jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHAwithRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore 
/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/Mark/app/dist/MyApp.apk myalias

I verified that it was signed and changed the name of the file then 
aligned the file

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Mark/app/dist/MyApp.apk

to

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Mark/app/dist/MyApp_unaligned.apk

I aligend the file using

$ zipalign -v 4 /Volumes/Macintosh\ 
HD/Users/Mark/app/dist/MyApp_unaligned.apk /Volumes/Macintosh\ 
HD/Users/Mark/app/dist/MyApp.apk

This file should work on my Android tablet. I'm able to start and run 
the file, but my app doesn't see any of the files in the subfolders of 
folder vid/, except for Simple Animation.mp4. However, it _does_ notice 
that there are files. A repeat loop that checks all folders in folder 
vid/ for files creates a list, but the lines in the list are empty, one 
line for each file, meaning that it can't figure out what the name of 
the files is. Needless to say, I checked that all files are included in 
the new apk file.

What may cause this?

If you wonder about the file paths: I started my Mac from an external 
disk and used the files on the internal disk. So, /Volumes/Macintosh HD 
isn't the system disk here.

You can also read this at or at http://qery.us/hv0 where I have posted a 
test file or at http://stackoverflow.com/q/26700856/807423

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