Open Android packages as zip archives

[fekir]

Is there an existing request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I often want to inspect the content of Android packages (apk, aar, and aab).
Those are, after all, zip archives that can be opened by any program that can handle .zip files

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to explore .apk, .aar, and .aab files

Describe alternatives you've considered

Rename those file to .zip, create a user-defined mc.ext.ini, or modify the global mc.ext.ini

Additional context

The proposed change would be to modify

[zip-by-shell]                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Shell=.zip                                                                                                                                                                                                        
ShellIgnoreCase=true                                                                                                                                                                                               
Open=%cd %p/uzip://                                                                                                                                                                                                
View=%view{ascii} /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip                                                                                                                                                            

to

[zip-by-shell]                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Regex=\\.(zip|apk|aar|aab)$                                                                                                                                                                                        
ShellIgnoreCase=true                                                                                                                                                                                               
Open=%cd %p/uzip://                                                                                                                                                                                                
View=%view{ascii} /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip                                                                                                                                                            

or create separate entries, similarly to jar files

[jar]                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Type=\\(Java (Jar file|archive) data \\((zip|JAR)\\)\\)                                                                                                                                                            
TypeIgnoreCase=true                                                                                                                                                                                                
Open=%cd %p/uzip://                                                                                                                                                                                                
View=%view{ascii} /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip                                                                                                                                                            

the output of file on a couple of test apk is Android package (APK), with gradle app-metadata.properties / Android package (APK), with AndroidManifest.xml, with APK Signing Block, but I think on some system (or with different archives) it was Zip archive data.
The output of file on an aab is Zip archive data.

[zyv]

Could you please test #4714 ?

[fekir]

Could you please test #4714 ?

Copied the settings, seems to work correctly for apk files

[zyv]

Could you please test #4714 ?

Copied the settings, seems to work correctly for apk files

Thanks! and for other files?

[fekir]

Yes, I could test an aar and aab package successfully