How to parse the AndroidManifest.xml file inside an .apk package

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Published on 2010-01-19T22:49:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 23:47 UTC
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This file appears to be in a binary XML format. What is this format and how can it be parsed programmatically (as opposed to using the aapt dump tool in the SDK)?

This binary format is not discussed in the in the documentation here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html

Note: I want to access this information from outside the Android environment, preferably from Java.

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