In my Last Post we saw how to view the Source code of an ANDROID *.APK file.
If you don't know how to view the source code please read this Tutorial.
After doing the above when you open the XML using Browser you see the below error

 or when you Open with Notepad you might get this format which is in the form of "Binary XML"

" 8   É   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;                    Y     Y      É   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;   ˆ   Ê   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;                ÿÿÿÿ         ÿÿÿÿ   Ò            Z     Z         ÿÿÿÿ            ÿÿÿÿ         Ï   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;   L   Р  ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;                    [     [         ÿÿÿÿ         Ò   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ;   L   Ô   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ\                    ]     ]         ]     ]      Ö   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ\      Ö   ÿÿÿÿ^          L   Ø   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ\                    _     _         _     _      Ú   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ\      Ú   ÿÿÿÿ^          8   Ü   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ1                    `     `      Ü   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ1   8   Ý   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ1                    a     a      Ý   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ1   L   á   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ3                    b     b         ÿÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿ $   ä   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ6            8   å   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ7                    c     c      å   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ7      æ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ6      ç   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ3   8   é   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿd                    e     e      é   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿd  "


To convert the Above Binary XML or AXML to XML use
  AXMLPrinter2 - J2ME port of Google's Android (Copyrights to Dmitry.S...@gmail.com)
Download  AXMLPrinter2  Here
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Procedure

 Copy "AXMLPrinter2.jar" to the folder where xml files are stored

 From Command Prompt navigate to the Stored Folder & run this Code.
java -jar ./AXMLPrinter2.jar Filename.xml >Filename.txt




 Example

java -jar ./AXMLPrinter2.jar AndroidManifest.xml >AndroidManifest.txt

You will find a new Text *.txt File. Open with Notepad or Convert to XML by renaming the file  extension to "XML"
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Edit :  Binary AXML to XML Converter, Printer with GUI

A better way of Reverse Engineering Android APK,
 to view Source Code >> Check Here
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