- Extension
- .img
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The Android Open Source Project
- Phil Katz
- Description
- An Android boot image (boot.img, recovery.img) packs the kernel and ramdisk a phone or tablet boots from, in the ANDROID! header format mkbootimg writes; device makers and custom ROM tools flash it, and Samsung Odin needs it wrapped in a .tar.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/zip
