Retrieve APK from Non-Rooted Android Device through ADB

android-adb-pull-apk.md

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18003462/348146

None of these suggestions worked for me, because Android was appending a sequence number to the package name to produce the final APK file name (this may vary with the version of Android OS). The following sequence of commands is what worked for me on a non-rooted device:

1. Determine the package name of the app, e.g. com.example.someapp. Skip this step if you already know the package name.

   adb shell pm list packages

   Look through the list of package names and try to find a match between the app in question and the package name. This is usually easy, but note that the package name can be completely unrelated to the app name. If you can't recognize the app from the list of package names, try finding the app in Google Play using a browser. The URL for an app in Google Play contains the package name.

2. Get the full path name of the APK file for the desired package.

   adb shell pm path com.example.someapp

   The output will look something like this: package:/data/app/com.example.someapp-2.apk

3. Pull the APK file from the Android device to the development box.

   adb pull /data/app/com.example.someapp-2.apk

Yes

any clue how to do it my friend, can u pls help?

Ask support for instructions; they should at least have a link to more details.

nah man, they show me a way to dump app utility but im on linux so, no good for me.

adb works the same way on Linux and Windows. It's hard to know exactly what they want.

Look into using logcat from a adb shell and run it from before the issue, replicate the problem, and after. You could also use the Developer Options > Bug Report tool (on your device), do an Interactive, replicate your problem, and provide a separate Full.

Yes I am pretty sure it works the same on Linux and windows, but my question is how do I reproduce these steps that they sent me:
_ello,

Thank you for your response. It's greatly appreciated.

Please see step 3 in the link below for how to collect the report;

https://support.kaspersky.com/common/diagnostics/14691#block3

We remain at your disposal.

Thank you and have a nice day!_
Instead of using DumpAndroidApps , i would like to use ADB command, is there any command that does what they are asking?

Instead of using DumpAndroidApps , i would like to use ADB command, is there any command that does what they are asking?

No single command, it's likely they're just stringing commands together. There's no way to know exactly what they're doing without trying to decompile the application. At that point you're best off just using someone elses Windows machine.

All right this is such a pain man, you have no idea, Ive been on this for the last 4 days with their technical customer service and they cant make it work. They need all this:
To process requests, Kaspersky Customer Service might need a report generated by the DumpAndroidApps utility. The report collects the following information from the mobile device:

1. All APK files from the /data/app and /system/app folders on the mobile device
   

2. All paths to the APK files on the mobile device are saved to the file AndroidApps.txt.
   

3. All files:
   

4.     From the folder /sdcard/Download on the mobile device are copied to the folder android_apps_0/Download on the computer.
   

5.     From the folder /system/bin on the mobile device are copied to the folder android_apps_0/system_bin on the computer.
   

6.     From the folder /system/xbin on the mobile device are copied to the folder ndroid_apps_0/system_xbin on the computer.
   

I tried following their tutorial on windows but it is no working aswell. When I ran the adb-setup.exe it did not installed the drivers, then i ran the dumpapputility but the folders were all empty.

Friends, sorry for any inconvenience, i was able to get the dump file on windows using version 1.3.0 of adb-setup.exe

Friends, sorry for any inconvenience, i was able to get the dump file on windows using version 1.3.0 of adb-setup.exe

Glad to hear; if you have trouble in the future, you might find the XDA Developers forums a useful place to work through things like this.

To extract an app installed from the play store on a Galaxy Tab A Running Android 9 I used the following command from a git bash shell:

$ adb shell "pm list packages -f" | grep video

which returned this data: package:/data/app/com.samsung.android.videolist-g6xTrW8SV-TC1mpyial9WA==/base.apk=com.samsung.android.videolist

and this command successfully retrieved it: adb pull /data/app/com.samsung.android.videolist-g6xTrW8SV-TC1mpyial9WA==/base.apk 1 file pulled. 27.9 MB/s (5924177 bytes in 0.202s)

This Android Package Browser was useful because it showed the actual name of the APK was formatted as: folders+ base name + guid({g6xTrW...})+ "==/base.apk"

meaning the actual filename to be pulled is apparently: /data/app/com.samsung.android.videolist-g6xTrW8SV-TC1mpyial9WA==/base.apk

This still work on Android 14.
Thank you!