Pull & Patch

Pull apk from android

Package name

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.<REDACTED>&hl=en_IN

The above bold text is our app package name which we want to pull from our android.

Another way to list packages is

adb shell pm list package

Adb devices

E:\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
97z43dslc2bf    device

Make sure that you have ADB installed, up and running

Pull apk from android

adb shell pm path <PACKAGE_NAME>
# e.g: /data/app/apath/where/itisinstalled/base.apk
: '
adb            : Android Debug Bridge for interacting with a device.
shell          : Opens a command-line shell on the Android device.
pm             : Package Manager tool for managing apps.
path           : Retrieves the path of the APK file for a given app.
<package_name> : The unique identifier of the app whose APK path you want to find.
'

This will return as path of APK where it's stored in our android,

adb pull <PATH> <DESTINATION> 
# e.g: abd pull /data/app/apath/where/itisinstalled/base.apk .\apks\myapk.apk

Patch apk

First way - objection (automatic)

Dependencies -

sudo apt install zipalign apksigner -y