appdiff

README

Appdiff

A CLI tools to compare the difference between two APKs or IPAs.

Useful to reduce manual effort to make a report size app when a new version was released.

Usage

1. Get appdiff executable file from repo

$ appdiff <new_apk_or_ipa> <old_apk_or_ipa> <dir_level> <custom_outputs_directory>

or, use file develop script

$ go run main.go  <new_apk_or_ipa> <old_apk_or_ipa> <dir_level> <custom_outputs_directory>

until you see

...
All data has been copied to clipboard!
$ _

<dir_level> and <custom_outputs_directory> are optional, but <dir_level> will become mandatory if you pass <custom_outputs_directory> as well

1. Open create a new sheet page to paste the result
2. To be a pretty view, just go to Data > Split text to columns
3. Go ahead to sort by diff header or other columns

Building the Executables

you can use this command to build binary via mac

go build -o mac-appdiff # or
make build

for cross-platform (build linux executable via mac)

GOARCH="amd64" GOOS="linux" go build -o linux-appdiff # or
make build-linux

Todo

• Diff by packages in Android
• Beautiful report

License

MIT