Pull an App from your phone

Sometimes, it might be interesting to pull out an App from you smart-phone to analyse it.
For example, you might want to see what the apk file contains, or simply disassemble it
to recover data.

• Connect your smart-phone / tablet to your computer
• browse the apps with the following command

adb shell ls /system/app/

• To obtain gmail run the following command in adb

 adb shell -d pull /system/app/gmail.apk gmail.apk

• If using an emulator replace « -d » by « e »

The figure below is the result of the command.

adb pull

And that’s it.