If you find that many of the APKs are named 'base.apk' you can also use this one line command to pull all the APKs off a phone you can access while renaming any 'base.apk' names to the package name. If not, you will need to root the device first.

Of course you also need the right permissions to access the directory your file is in. With adb pull you can copy files from your device to your system, when the device is attached with USB. adb pull /data/app/ path/to/desired/destination Package:/data/app/-nfFSVxn_CTafgra3Fr_rXQ=/base.apkģ) Using the full path name from Step 2, pull the APK file from the Android device to the development box. The URL for an app in Google Play contains the package name.Ģ) Get the full path name of the APK file for the desired package. If you can't recognize the app from the list of package names, try finding the app in Google Play using a browser. This is usually easy, but note that the package name can be completely unrelated to the app name. Look through the list of package names and try to find a match between the app in question and the package name. The following sequence of commands is what worked for me on a non-rooted device:ġ) Determine the package name of the app, e.g. On more recent versions of Android (Oreo and Pie), an unpredictable random string is appended. 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.

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