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