Read the package name of an Android APK

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I need to get the package name of an Android APK  I have tried to unzip the APK and read contents of AndroidManifest xml  but seems it s not a text file   How can I extract the APK s package name

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If you are looking at google play and want to know its package name then you can look at url or address bar  You will get package name  Here com landshark yaum is the package name   https   play google com store apps details id com landshark yaum amp feature search result  t W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5sYW5kc2hhcmsueWF1bSJd

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you can instal Package Name Viewer apk on your emulator and next you can see package name of all instaled app on your emulator

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On Mac  Way 1  zgong   Users zgong Library Android sdk build-tools 29 0 3 aapt dump badging   Downloads NonSIMCC-151-app-release-signed apk package  name  com A B  versionCode  2020111801  versionName  1 0 40  compileSdkVersion  29  compileSdkVersionCodename  10  sdkVersion  24  targetSdkVersion  29          Way 2   Users zgong Library Android sdk build-tools 29 0 3 aapt2 dump packagename   Downloads NonSIMCC-151-app-release-signed apk com A B

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Based on  hackbod answer     but related to windows   aapt command is located on Android SDK build-tools version   If you need more info about what is appt command  Android Asset Packaging Tool  read this https   stackoverflow com a 28234956 812915  The dump sub-command of aapt is used to display the values of individual elements or parts of a package    aapt dump badging  lt path-to-apk gt   If you want see only the line with package  name info  use findstr  aapt dump badging  lt path-to-apk gt    findstr -n  package  name    findstr  1    Hope it help other windows user

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As I don t was able to find the package name in the  apk file with editor  like suggested above   I have checked the functions in the App  ES Datei Explorer     ES File Explorer   free version  that I had installed already   In this tool  the package name is showed properly  As I think a good file explorer should not be missing on a phone  I suggest to use this tool  if you already have installed the apk on an mobile and have to know the  package name

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For Windows following worked for me         Initializing variables SET adb  C  Users  lt User name gt  AppData Local Android Sdk platform-tools adb  SET aapt  C  Users  lt User name gt  AppData Local Android Sdk build-tools 22 0 0 aapt  SET APKPath C  Users  lt User name gt  Desktop APK Instant Instal   CD  APKPath         Searching for apk file and storing it FOR  F  delims     f IN   dir  S  B   apk   DO SET  APKFullPath   f  SET apk  APKFullPath         Command adb install apk  run apk  adb  install  apk         Fetching package name from apk  aapt  dump badging  APKFullPath    FIND  package  name    gt  temp txt FOR  F  tokens 2 delims      s IN  temp txt  DO SET pkgName   s del temp txt        Launching apk  adb  shell monkey -p  pkgName  -c android intent category LAUNCHER 1  pause   Note  Please edit the paths of adb  aapt  APKPath according to the paths of adb  aapt  and the apk location in your system   Working    Here I have added the apk in a folder on Desktop   Desktop APK Instant Instal     The command  adb  install  apk  installs the application if the device is connected  This  aapt  dump badging  APKFullPath    FIND  package  name    gt  temp txt fetches package name and a few other details like version etc  of the apk and stores in a temp txt file in same location as that of the apk  FOR  F  tokens 2 delims      s IN  temp txt  DO SET pkgName   sextracts the package name and assigns topkgName  variable Finally  adb  shell monkey -p  pkgName  -c android intent category LAUNCHER 1 launches the app    In essence the above code installs the apk from given location in desktop  Desktop APK Instant Instal   to the device and launches the application

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aapt dump badging  lt path-to-apk gt    grep package   name

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I also tried the de-compilation thing  it works but recently I found the easiest  way    Download and install Appium from Appium website Open Appium- Android setting  choose the target apk file  And then you get everything you want  the package info  activity info

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A very simple method is to use apkanalyzer   apkanalyzer manifest application-id     path to apk

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You can install the apk on your phone  then     connect using adb  you can launch adb shell and execute pm list packages -f  which shows the package name for each installed apk    This taken from  Find package name for Android apps to use Intent to launch Market app from web

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Another solution is to use aapt list and use sed to parse through that    aapt list -a  PATH TO YOUR APK   sed -n    Package Group  s  s   name   p

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If you just want to know package name  run adb logcat  launch the activity you want   you will get a hint on the package name

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There s a very simple way if you got your APK allready on your Smartphone  Just use one of these APPs   Package Name Viewer Apps

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To use this in batch scripting it s handy to have the script return just the package name  e g  for uninstalling an app when you have the APK     Here s the script I use     extract the android package id from a built apk file   usage   getPackageName sh  lt path-to-apk gt  line  aapt dump badging   1    grep package   name     above returns    package  name  com calvium myapp  versionCode  1  versionName  1 0  if     line    name           versionCode     then     echo   BASH REMATCH 1   else     echo  Failed to find package name      exit 1 fi   available on gist  So you could write   adb uninstall    getPackageName sh file apk

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If you don t have the Android SDK installed  like in some test scenarios  you can get the package name using the following bash method   getAppIdFromApk       local apk path   1       regular expression  required    local re     L   MainActivity       sed substitute expression   local se  s    L       MainActivity   1 p      tr expression   local te            local app id    unzip -p  apk path classes dex   strings   grep -Eo  re   sed -n -e  se   tr  te      echo   app id      Tested on a mac   strings  and  unzip  are standard on most linux s  so should work on linux too

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Since its mentioned in Android documentation that AAPT has been deprecated  getting the package name using AAPT2 command in Linux is as follows     aapt2 dump packagename  lt path to apk gt   Since I am using an older version of Gradle build  I had to download a newer version of AAPT2 as mentioned here    Download AAPT2 from Google Maven  Using the build-tools in my sdk - 25 0 3  26 0 1 and 27 0 3  executing the aapt2 command shows an error  Unable to open  packagename   No such file or directory  That s why I went for the newer versions of AAPT2   I used 3 3 0-5013011 for linux

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I think the best and simplest way to extract only the package name in Linux is  aapt dump badging  lt APK path gt    grep package   sed -r  s package  name    a-z0-9         1     Explanation    AAPT extracts the APK information Grep  package  to keep only the line about the package information Make sed replace the whole line with the package name only using the following regex  package  name    a-z0-9        and replacing with the first  and only  matching group

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You can use Analyze APK    from the Build menu in Android Studio  it will display the package name at the top of new window

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The following bash script will display the package name and the main activity name   apk package sh  package   aapt dump badging        awk   package  gsub  name               print  2    activity   aapt dump badging        awk   activity  gsub  name               print  2    echo echo     file    1  echo  package    package  echo  activity   activity    run it like so   apk package sh  path to my apk

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If you open the AndroidManifest xml using MS Notepad  search for phrase package and you ll find following   package manifest  xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx     where xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx is your package name  just written with a space after each character   It s useful way when you don t have any specific tools installed

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A Programmatic Answer  If you need to do this programmatically  it s a little more involved than just getting the answer into your brain  I have a script that I use to sign all of our apps  but each use a different key  Here are 2 ways to get just the Package Name as output so you can put it in a variable or do whatever you need with it   Example output  com example appname  and nothing more   Requirements  aapt - Android Asset Packaging Tool  part of the SDK Tools download  Solution 1  Using awk specify   as the Field Separator  search for a line with package  name   and print only the 2nd  field  in the line   aapt dump badging  path to file apk   awk -v FS       package  name   print  2     A weakness of this method is that it relies on aapt to output the package information fields in the same order   package  name  com example appname  versionCode  3461  versionName  2 2 4  platformBuildVersionName  4 2 2-1425461    We have no commitments from the developers to maintain this format   Solution 2  Using awk specify   as the Field Separator  search for a line with package   and print only the 2nd  field  in the line   aapt list -a  path to file apk   awk -v FS       package   print  2     A weakness of this method is that it relies on aapt to output package  only in the Android Manifest  section of the output  We have no commitments from the developers to maintain this format   Solution 3  Expand the apk file with apktool d and read the AndroidManifest xml   This would be the best method  but the AndroidManifest xml is a binary file and all the SO answers I see for converting it to text do not work   Using apktool d instead of a simple unzip is supposed to do this for you  but it does not   Please comment if you have an solution to this issue

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aapt list -a  path to apk    I recommend you save it in a  txt  because it can be very long  So      aapt list -a  path to apk    file txt   Then see the file txt in your current directory

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You get the package name programmatically using   packageManager getPackageArchiveInfo apkFilePath  0   packageName

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You can extract AndroidManifest xml from the APK  remove all NULL bytes  skip everything until after the string  manifest   and then you are at a length byte followed by the package name  and what comes after it   For the difficult task I use the great GEMA tool  so the command looks like this   7z e -so MyApp apk AndroidManifest xml   gema   x00     gema -match  manifest lt U1 gt  lt U gt   substring 0  char-int  1   2     Of course  you can use any other tool to do the filtering

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A simple solution would be Open Android Studio -  Build -  Analyze Apk    browse and select the APK now you can find the package name and pretty much you can read

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