Does Android keep the apk files if so where

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After android installs an application from the Marketplace  does it keep the  apk file   Is there a standard location where Android would keep such files

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To find an apk  download and Install the Bluetooth App Sender from Play store  Once installation completes open the Bluetooth App Sender  It will show all the apps   apk  installed in your device  then you can easily transfer the app to your PC through Bluetooth

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If you re looking for the path of a specific app  a quick and dirty solution is to just grep the bugreport      adb bugreport   grep  dir  data app     I don t know that this will provide an exhaustive list  so it may help to run the app first

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Install from marketplace It s the behavior of marketplace whether to keep the apk after installation  Google play doesn t keep the apk after the installation  Other third-party marketplaces might have the different behaviors  Install from development debug tool  adb  eclipse  android studio  When we install the apk from debug tool  directly invoke adb install or from eclipse android studio  the apk will be transferred  adb push  to a public read and writable directory  usually  data local tmp   After that  the tool will use the pm command to install  it will delete the temporary apk in  data local tmp  after the successful installation  We could get these information from debug output like following    adb install bin TestApplication apk  3155 KB s  843375 bytes in 0 260s      pkg   data local tmp TestApplication apk Success  How system keeps the apk Of course the system have to store all apks somewhere  There are three places for the system to keep the apks based on the different types of apks   for stock app Those are usually shipped in device by manufacture  including core app for system running and google service  you can find them under directory  system app and  system priv-app   user installed app Most of the apks fall into this category  These apks are usually installed from marketplace by users or by adb install without -s option  You can find them under the directory  data app for a rooted device   app on sdcard If the apk enable its install location in sdcard with android installLocation  quot auto quot  in its manifest  the app can be moved to sdcard from system s app manager menu  These apks are usually located in secure folder of sdcard  mnt sdcard asec  Anther way to force the install location to sdcard is using the command adb install -s apk-to-install apk    As a note  the files for pre-installed app are not in a single  apk file anymore  There is a folder containing files for every pre-installed app in the directory  system app or  system priv-app for the newest android release

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In  data app but for copy protection I don t think you can access it

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apk files can be located under  data app  directory  Using ES File Explorer we can access these  APK files

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When i installed my app on emulator  it showed my the  apk file in      data app   Then I used    ls data app   to see if it exists or   not   After you install your app just use ls command vie shell and check desired directory but it depends what kind of application you are trying to install  I used this method to Install  Point if any thing is wrong

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Well I came to this post because I wanted to reinstall some app I liked much  If this is your case  just go to Google Play  and look for My Apps  the tab All  and you will find a way to reinstall some app you liked  I faced a problem that I could not find by search one app  but it was there in My apps so I could reinstall in my new mobile

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Preinstalled applications are in  system app folder  User installed applications are in  data app  I guess you can t access unless you have a rooted phone  I don t have a rooted phone here but try this code out   public class Testing extends Activity       private static final String TAG    TEST        Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout main           File appsDir   new File   data app             String   files   appsDir list             for  int i   0   i  lt  files length   i                   Log d TAG   File    files i                       It does lists the apks in my rooted htc magic and in the emu

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If you just want to get an APK file of something you previously installed  do this     Get AirDroid from Google Play Access your phone using AirDroid from your PC web browser Go to Apps and select the installed app Click the  download  button to download the APK version of this app from your phone   You don t need to root your phone  use adb  or write anything

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if you are using eclipse goto DDMS and then file explorer there you will see System Apps folder and the apks are there

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data app system app system priv-app mnt asec  when installed in sdcard    You can pull the  apks from any of them      adb pull  mnt asec

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Preinstalled Apps are typically in  system app and user installed apps are in  data app     You can use  adb pull   but you need to know the full path of the APK file   On the emulator  you can get a directory listing using  adb shell     ls    But on an android device  you will not be able to do that in   data  folder due to security reasons   So how do you figure out the full path of the APK file     You can get a full list of all apps installed by writing a program that queries the PackageManager   Short code snippet below     PackageManager  pm   getPackageManager    List lt PackageInfo gt  pkginfo list   pm getInstalledPackages PackageManager GET ACTIVITIES   List lt ApplicationInfo gt  appinfo list   pm getInstalledApplications 0   for  int x 0  x  lt  pkginfo list size    x                    PackageInfo pkginfo   pkginfo list get x     pkg path x    appinfo list get x  publicSourceDir     store package path in array     You can also find apps that will give such info   There are lots of them   Try this one  AppSender

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As opposed to what s written on the chosen answer  you don t need root and it is possible to get the APKs of the installed apps  which is how I ve done it on my app  here   Example   List lt PackageInfo gt  packages getPackageManager   getInstalledPackages 0     Then  for each of the items of the list  you can access packageInfo applicationInfo sourceDir  which is the full path of the APK of the installed app

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If you are rooted  download the app Root Explorer  Best File manager for rooted users  Anyways  System app has all the default apks that came with the phone  and data apk has all the apks of the apps you have installed  Just long press on the apk you want  while in Root Explorer   get to your  sdcard folder and just paste

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You can pull apps with ADB   They are in  data App   I believe   adb pull  location on device   where to save    Note that you have to root your phone to pull copy protected apps

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Use this to list all  apks under  data app   adb bugreport   grep  package name      grep  codePath   data    cut -d    -f4

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You can use package manager  pm  over adb shell to list packages   adb shell pm list packages   sort   and to display where the  apk file is   adb shell pm path com king candycrushsaga package  data app com king candycrushsaga-1 base apk   And adb pull to download the apk   adb pull data app com king candycrushsaga-1 base apk

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There is no standard location  however you can use the PackageManager to find out about packages and the ApplicationInfo class you can get from there has various information about a particular package  the path to its  apk  the path to its data directory  the path to a resource-only  apk  for forward locked apps   etc   Note that you may or may not have permission to read these directories depending on your relationship with the other app  however  all apps are able to read the resource  apk  which is also the real  apk for non-forward-locked app    If you are just poking around in the shell  currently non-forward-locked apps are located in  data app  apk   The shell user can read a specific  apk  though it can t list the directory   In a future release the naming convention will be changed slightly  so don t count on it remaining the same  but if you get the path of the  apk from the package manager then you can use it in the shell

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Another way to get the apks you can t find  on a rooted device is with rom tool box    Make a backup using app manager then go to storage emulated appmanager and check either system app backup or user app backup

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