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I'm trying to get the APK of an installed application from my device. I'm following the instructions in this answer but when pulling it, adb says the APK doesn't exist. This are the exact steps:

$ adb shell pm list packages
(whole list of packages)
$ adb shell pm path com.google.android.apps.books
package:/data/app/com.google.android.apps.books-1/base.apk
$ adb pull /data/app/com.google.android.apps.books-1/base.apk
adb: error: remote object '/data/app/com.google.android.apps.books-1/base.apk' does not exist
How can I pull this file to my local drive?
Try this:
$ adb shell cp /data/app/com.google.android.apps.books-1/base.apk /storage/emulated/0/Download/base.apk
$ adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Download/base.apk
                Thnx. I looked through a lot of different solutions but this is the only solution that worked for my device.
– Oke Uwechue
                Dec 31, 2020 at 18:31
        
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