manifest.xml XML Parsing Error: not well-formed

I'm a newbie, I use the android sdk on ubuntu and downloaded a few free android apps, when I tried to load them onto the sdk using eclipse, it gives an XML parser error. I am unable to view the source code of the application too.

If I try opening the xml file using a browser, I get

XML Parsing开发者_运维百科 Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///home/Downloads/apks/BlueFTP.apk_FILES/AndroidManifest.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

Has anyone encountered such a problem? Any solutions please?

Content of manifest.xml

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You can't extract APKs and load the resulting files into Eclipse to examine an app's source code. This is why the XML file is giving you XML parsing errors - it's not XML; it's the compiled form of XML.

All Android apps consist of human-readable Java source code and text XML documents. When compiled, these files get reduced to computer-readable Java classes and binary XML. These are then compressed into an APK and delivered to devices.

You can not reverse this process without the use of a decompiler, and even with a decompiler you will only get an approximation of the input.

If you want to learn how to program Android apps, may I suggest exploring the sample apps included in the SDK.

Do you have the APK?

try uncompressing it, and paste the content of the Manifest.xml file.

Secondly, where are you getting the errors? When you run the app in the phone? or in the eclipse? if in eclipse, how did you figure out to create a project out of an APK only? or do you have the full project? if you have the full project, then you might be having the Manifest file as well, so just paste that file's contents here and let us check

Sorry for the outburst of questions, though.

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