Does Android keep the .apk files? if so where?

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Gubatron picture Gubatron · Mar 24, 2010 · Viewed 445k times · Source

After android installs an application from the Marketplace, does it keep the .apk file?

Is there a standard location where Android would keep such files?

Answer

Mariusz Jamro picture Mariusz Jamro · Mar 15, 2015

You can use package manager (pm) over adb shell to list packages:

adb shell pm list packages | sort

and to display where the .apk file is:

adb shell pm path com.king.candycrushsaga
package:/data/app/com.king.candycrushsaga-1/base.apk

And adb pull to download the apk.

adb pull data/app/com.king.candycrushsaga-1/base.apk

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