How to open aia file and view it?

[Superjay (Jay Lee)]

I want to open .aia file and view it.
It seems .aia file is kind of directory or .zip file. I want to see inside aia file and modify them or something. I get this idea from here.
I searched many places to open aia file, but nothing worked. Is there any way to look inside aia file, or modify them?

[Manbir (Manbir Singh)]

Just change the extension from .aia to .zip
And open it in WinRaR And modify it.

[Peter (Moderator)]

I guess you didn’t search good enough

AIA file structure

Some text used and adapted from “ENCOURAGING COLLABORATION THROUGH APP INVENTOR” By Katherine Kyle Feeney Kodular allows users to download the project files (or source file) for their projects, which can then be reloaded. The structure will look something like this: [aiafilestructure] The assets folders hold all files that have been uploaded to the project as an asset. If no assets are associated with a project then there will be no assets folder. If you import an extension a folder name…

[Taifun]

@Manbir

Just change the extension from .aia to .zip

no need to change the file extension…
just open the aia file using any zip reader, for example 7zip

Taifun

[Manbir (Manbir Singh)]

@Taifun

no need to change the file extension…

You are right @Taifun
But not all zip readers can open .aia file, but they can open .zip file
For example, In-built Zip Viewer (in Mobile Phones)

[WatermelonIce (Bryan)]

Changing a file extension doesn’t change the content to the file, but why is there a need of doing it? Considering you should have used a computer, I personally think changing the extension is useless.

And it is a bad practice too. Some software process things differently, and if that isn’t the way it should be in it’s original format, it might break. Refering to this post:

What exactly happens when we change extension of a file?