adbPullAs 2.0.0

adb pull wrapper to pull package private files from Android device

adbPullAs

adb pull wrapper to pull package private files from Android device.

WORKS ONLY ON DEBUG APPLICATIONS.

Problem Scope

Developers and testers need to access data from /data/data/com.viliussutkus89.adb.pull.as/cache.

adb pull /data/data/.../cache is no go, because the directory is private.

adb run-as com.viliussutkus89.adb.pull.as cp /data/data/com.viliussutkus89.adb.pull.as/cache /data/local/tmp is no go, because /data/local/tmp may require storage permissions.

adb su -c cp /data/data/.../cache /data/local/tmp is no go, because it requires root.

Solution

Recursive wrapper around adb.

Listing directories and reading files while using runtime permissions of specified application.

Piping contents into /data/local/tmp using normal adb user permissions and adb pull'ing into host computer.

Install

adbPullAs is available on PyPI

python -m pip install adbPullAs

Usage

adbPullAs is used as follows: adbPullAs PACKAGE_NAME ANDROID_SOURCE... COMPUTER_DESTINATION_DIR.

COMPUTER_DESTINATION_DIR can be omitted to pull into current working directory, but only with a single supplied ANDROID_SOURCE (example 1).

Multiple ANDROID_SOURCEs require COMPUTER_DESTINATION_DIR to be supplied (example 2).

Example 1

adbPullAs com.viliussutkus89.application /data/data/com.viliussutkus89.application/databases/androidx.work.workdb

Example 2

adbPullAs com.viliussutkus89.application /data/data/com.viliussutkus89.application/cache /data/data/com.viliussutkus89.application/files ./pulled_from_device