Android Extract APK

Kevin FOO
Mar 24, 2021

To extract APK (Android app) from a non rooted Android phone you will need to enable developer options and download platform tools from android.com.

To list all the packages in your phone

adb shell pm list packages

Or you can filter it with grep

adb shell pm list packages|grep <filter>

Lets say we are extracting YouTube “com.google.android.youtube”. We will need the path of the APK.

adb shell pm path <package_id>

Lets say we are extracting the base.apk

adb pull <apk_path>

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Kevin FOO

A software engineer, a rock climbing, inline skating enthusiast, a husband, a father.