Where are all the shared libraries stored on android?
Where are all the shared libraries (.so) stored on Android? I was able to find the /system/lib directory but I'm sure there are more. Not being able to use the find command doesn't help either.
Answer
In the many AOSP and vendor images I have analyzed, I've observed a regular pattern of locations for shared libraries, as follows (some of these are only in newer versions):
system/app/<name>/lib/<arch>system/priv-app/<name>/lib/<arch>system/libsystem/lib64system/vendor/libsystem/vendor/lib64
I've also occasionally seen non-standard locations, for example system/csc/common/system/lib64/ on a Samsung Edge running Android 5.1.1.
Your best bet in finding the location of all shared libraries on a particular device is to recursively search the entire device filesystem as root using find / -name \*.so. If there's no way for you to get find installed (via Busybox or the like), you might try extracting the system image, mounting it on a Linux system and running find over the mounted filesystem.