Generate debug Apk from debug aab file is not working

Question

I am using the following command to generate APK from the AAB file using the bundle tool.

I am using bundletool-all-1.8.2.jar downloaded from here

I am using Windows 10 and when I execute the following command, it didn't generate any APKS file but opened the bundletool-all-1.8.2.jar in WinRAR jar extractor

C:/<Download location>/bundletool-all-1.8.2.jar build-apks --bundle=D:/app-debug.aab --output=D:/app-dev-debug.apks --mode=universal

Answer 1

bundletool.jar is not an executable, it's a java archive, you need to run it using:

java -jar bundletool.jar [command] [parameters]

For convenience, you create an alias (Unix) or doskey (Windows) to create a shortcut so that typing bundletool expands to java -jar bundletool.jar.