[Deprecated] remove ads in apk => https://github.com/nobodyzxc/RemoveAppAD

ad_remove_main.sh

APK="$1"
if [ -f $APK ];then
    ./apktool d "$APK"
    OIFS="$IFS"
    IFS=$'\n'
    grep -lR "\->loadAd" "${APK%.*}" | xargs -d '\n' -- sed -i '/\->loadAd/d'
    IFS="$OIFS"
    ./apktool b "${APK%.*}" -o "${APK%.*}_no_ad.apk"
    java -jar sign.jar --overwrite --apks "${APK%.*}_no_ad.apk"
    rm -rf "${APK%.*}"
else
    echo "please input apk file"
fi

apktool

#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

# This script is a wrapper for smali.jar, so you can simply call "smali",
# instead of java -jar smali.jar. It is heavily based on the "dx" script
# from the Android SDK

# Set up prog to be the path of this script, including following symlinks,
# and set up progdir to be the fully-qualified pathname of its directory.
prog="$0"
while [ -h "${prog}" ]; do
    newProg=`/bin/ls -ld "${prog}"`

    newProg=`expr "${newProg}" : ".* -> \(.*\)$"`
    if expr "x${newProg}" : 'x/' >/dev/null; then
        prog="${newProg}"
    else
        progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
        prog="${progdir}/${newProg}"
    fi
done
oldwd=`pwd`
progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
cd "${progdir}"
progdir=`pwd`
prog="${progdir}"/`basename "${prog}"`
cd "${oldwd}"

jarfile=apktool.jar
libdir="$progdir"
echo $libdir
if [ ! -r "$libdir/$jarfile" ]
then
    echo `basename "$prog"`": can't find $jarfile"
    exit 1
fi

javaOpts=""

# If you want DX to have more memory when executing, uncomment the following
# line and adjust the value accordingly. Use "java -X" for a list of options
# you can pass here.
# 
javaOpts="-Xmx512M -Dfile.encoding=utf-8"

# Alternatively, this will extract any parameter "-Jxxx" from the command line
# and pass them to Java (instead of to dx). This makes it possible for you to
# add a command-line parameter such as "-JXmx256M" in your ant scripts, for
# example.
while expr "x$1" : 'x-J' >/dev/null; do
    opt=`expr "$1" : '-J\(.*\)'`
    javaOpts="${javaOpts} -${opt}"
    shift
done

if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ] ; then
	jarpath=`cygpath -w  "$libdir/$jarfile"`
else
	jarpath="$libdir/$jarfile"
fi

# add current location to path for aapt
PATH=$PATH:`pwd`;
export PATH;
exec java $javaOpts -jar "$jarpath" "$@"

apktool.jar

sign.jar

I know nothing about that,
but I have uploaded apktool, apktool.jar and sign.jar here,
you can download all them all and give it a try.

not working for me, i need instructions

Input file () was not found or was not readable. grep: : No such file or directory sed: no input files /root/test/ I: Using Apktool 2.3.4 brut.directory.DirectoryException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: (No such file or directory) provided apk path or file '_no_ad.apk' does not exist Run with '--debug' parameter to get additional information.

im not sure if you input the filename correctly,
or the file is normal.

u may take the SO question a look:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41216047/apptool-decompile-with-and-apktool

grep -lR "->loadAd" "${APK%.*}" | xargs sed -i '/->loadAd/d'
this line dosnt work with files that have space in there name, i get error
[sed: can't read : No such file or directory]
can you check here and fix it please
https://superuser.com/questions/677078/sed-cant-read-no-such-file-or-directory

done, give it a try

Small note that this works better with the latest version of apktools.
Also, you could import the file or their project as a submodule.
Thanks for your help in DMs!

Move to: https://github.com/nobodyzxc/RemoveAppAD