Extract apk from a non root Android

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When your device is not rooted, and you want to analyse some app, you can’t just pull the application apk from it, so to do that, I use this trick.

NOTE Your android need to have curl binary

adb shell find / -name curl

If the previous command return the curl path, access your smartphone using,

adb shell

then execute the following command just changing the package name,

 package="package_name_goes_here";path=$(pm path $(pm list packages | grep $package | cut -d ':' -f2) | cut -d ':' -f2);filename=$(basename $path);curl --upload-file $path https://transfer.sh/$filename

in the final you’ll receive an transfer.sh link, where your apk file is saved.