get launchable activity name of package from adb

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Is there a way to get the launchable activity for a package from using adb   For an unroot phone  i e  without having the pull the apk from  data app directory and inspect with appt    I tried dumpsys  but it does not include information on default launchable activity   Thanks

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adb shell pm dump PACKAGE NAME   grep -A 1 MAIN

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bin bash  file getActivity sh package name  1  launch app by package name adb shell monkey -p   package name  -c android intent category LAUNCHER 1  sleep 1   get Activity name adb shell logcat -d   grep  START u0    tail -n 1   sed  s   cmp             1 g      sample   getActivity sh com tencent mm com tencent mm  ui LauncherUI

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You don t need root to pull the apk files from  data app  Sure  you might not have permissions to list the contents of that directory  but you can find the file locations of APKs with   adb shell pm list packages -f   Then you can use adb pull   adb pull  lt APK path from previous command gt    and then aapt to get the information you want   aapt dump badging  lt pulledfile apk gt

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Here is another way to find out apps package name and launcher activity   Step1  Start  adb logcat  in command prompt   Step2  Open the app  either in emulator or real device

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Launch your app and keep it in foreground   Run the below command      adb shell dumpsys window windows   find  mcurrentfocus

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Since Android 7 0 you can use adb shell cmd package resolve-activity command to get the default activity of an installed app like this   adb shell  cmd package resolve-activity --brief com google android calculator   tail -n 1  com google android calculator com android calculator2 Calculator

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I didn t find it listed so updating the list   You need to have the apk installed and running in front on your phone for this solution   Windows CMD line      adb shell dumpsys window windows   findstr  lt any unique string from your pkg Name gt   Linux Terminal   adb shell dumpsys window windows   grep -i  lt any unique string from your Pkg Name gt   OUTPUT for Calculator package would be   Window  7 Window 39ced4b1 u0 com android calculator2 com android calculator2 Calculator        mOwnerUid 10036 mShowToOwnerOnly true package com android calculator2 appop NONE      mToken AppWindowToken 29a4bed4 token Token 2f850b1a ActivityRecord eefe5c5 u0 com android calculator2  Calculator t322         mRootToken AppWindowToken 29a4bed4 token Token 2f850b1a ActivityRecord eefe5c5 u0 com android calculator2  Calculator t322         mAppToken AppWindowToken 29a4bed4 token Token 2f850b1a ActivityRecord eefe5c5 u0 com android calculator2  Calculator t322         WindowStateAnimator 3e160d22 com android calculator2 com android calculator2 Calculator          mSurface Surface name com android calculator2 com android calculator2 Calculator     mCurrentFocus Window 39ced4b1 u0 com android calculator2 com android calculator2 Calculator     mFocusedApp AppWindowToken 29a4bed4 token Token 2f850b1a ActivityRecord eefe5c5 u0 com android calculator2  Calculator t322      Main part is  First Line   Window  7 Window 39ced4b1 u0 com android calculator2 com android calculator2 Calculator     First part of the output is package name   com android calculator2  Second Part of output  which is after    can be two things  in our case its   com android calculator2 Calculator    lt PKg name gt   lt activity name gt      lt com android calculator2 gt   lt Calculator gt   so  Calculator is our activity If second part is entirely different from Package name and doesn t seem to contain pkg name which was before   in out output  then entire     second part can be used as main activity

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You can also use ddms for logcat logs where just giving search of the app name you will all info but you have to select Info instead of verbose or other options  check this below image

[android] get launchable activity name of package from adb

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