Decoding Android manifest xml results in incomplete strings

[mickowale]

Extracting/decoding the manifest.xml text content using core.bytecodes.mtf8.decode(apk.get_android_manifest_axml().get_xml() results in incomplete strings. apk.get_android_manifest_axml().get_xml().decode('utf-8') also has the same issue. Suspect some decoding error with the utf-8 encoding.

• Androguard Version: master
• Python Version: 3.8
• Operating System: Windows 11 / Ubuntu 16.04

Analyzed app SHA256: B784B1451C70508F0388B5031A6D6B72F4AEE4EDEAC9178BB26650139D851DED
Methods called:

core.bytecodes.mtf8.decode(apk.get_android_manifest_axml().get_xml(). apk is an instance of core.bytecodes.apk.APK

Expected partial:

<activity *some text* android:name="zok.android.phonics.ReadingPromoActivity" *some text*>

Output partial:

<activity android:theme="@android:0103000B" android:name=".ReadingPromoActivity" android:screenOrientation="0" android:configChanges="0x000004A0"/>

Possibly related bug: Calling apk.get_activities() outputs zok.android.phonics..ReadingPromoActivity for the activity listed above. with double period(.) after 'phonics'.