How do I view Android application specific cache?

Question

Is there any way to dynamically view the application specific cache in Android? I'm saving images to the cache (/data/data/my_app_package/cache) and I'm 99% sure they're saving there, but not sure how long they're staying around.

When I look in the cache using the DDMS File Explorer within Eclipse, it's always empty. I've also tried examining the appropriate cache dir in ADB and again it's always empty.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You may use this command for listing the files for your own debuggable apk:

adb shell run-as com.corp.appName ls /data/data/com.corp.appName/cache

And this script for pulling from cache:

#!/bin/sh
adb shell "run-as com.corp.appName cat '/data/data/com.corp.appNamepp/$1' > '/sdcard/$1'"
adb pull "/sdcard/$1"
adb shell "rm '/sdcard/$1'"

Then you can pull a file from cache like this:

./pull.sh cache/someCachedData.txt

Root is not required.