Name is desexiet
All you need is a working Android phone and Es file explorer on it
Open your es file manager
On the default window choose Apps tabs
Over there select the downloaded apps that you want their apks
Choose backup
After finished backup, go to backups folder on your internal memory card
There they will be.
you can use adb push&pull, asuming you know the path
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Ok, so the story behind this mini-tutorial is that I upgrade their phones periodically, as part of the upgrade process I have to wipe the phones and a nandroid backup doesn't always work.
Titanium Back Up is another option, But sometime i really would like to extract the .apk files from the Apps downloaded from Market.
Hence, I had to figure out a way to extract the .apk files from my phone so I could install them on theirs.
Here's how it's done:
There are two ways of extracting .apk files from your device:
Using a file manager like "EStrongs File Manager" or "ASTRO File Manger" (downloadable from the Market), or
Manually extracting .apk files through the Android SDK.
Method #1 - Using a file managerPrerequisite: Rooted device
Using ES File Manager
1) Open ES File Manager
2) Click on the menu button of your device
3) Click on "Manager"
4) Click on "App Manager"
5) Long press on app you want to extract
6) Click on "backup"
7) Extracted .apk files will be placed on the "backups" directory of your sd card
Using ASTRO
1) Open ASTRO File Manager
2) Click on the menu button of your device
3) Click on "tools"
4) Click on "Application Manager/Backup"
5) Choose apps to backup and click on "backup" to finish
6) Extracted .apk files will be placed on the "backups" directory of your sd card
Method #2 - Using the Android SDK
Prerequisites:
- Rooted phone
- Android SDK
- Android USB driver
To extract a .apk file from your device using the Android SDK:
1) Plug your “Rooted” Android device into your computer via the included USB cable.
2) From your adb command line (usually C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\) type “adb shell“ and press enter
3) Switch to root user, type “su“ and press enter
4) type “cd data/app“ and press enter
5) List all the installed apk files, type “ls“ and press enter (find the one you want to extract)
In another command window, pull one of the files on to your computer by typing:
“adb pull /data/app/application.apk name.apk” and press enter
Example:
“adb pull data/app/com.mauri.aplikeishon.apk aplikeishon.apk”
You can find the extracted .apk files in the /tools/ directory of your SDK (usually C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\)
Man the Sensation General forum is on fire with good post right now, this is the third one I have read in 45 minutes. I would have hit the thanks button but I am out of thanks right now. I just hope people do not use this for piracy.
That will be really useful for me, but wouldn't it be easier to use App2zip?
T-Macgnolia said:
Man the Sensation General forum is on fire with good post right now, this is the third one I have read in 45 minutes. I would have hit the thanks button but I am out of thanks right now. I just hope people do not use this for piracy.
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Yeah hope so.. :angel: :angel:
ridder215215 said:
That will be really useful for me, but wouldn't it be easier to use App2zip?
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Depends on ur choice and need boss..!! There are 100 ways to do a thing and i have mentioned three, and u mentioned 4th :victory:
This is my post!
This is MY POST! Some credit and a link to the original post would be the right thing to do. What a ****!
mauweb.net/3.0/en/technology/17-android/100-icon-androidextracting-apk-files-from-your-android .html
Super-Android said:
Ok, so the story behind this mini-tutorial is that I upgrade their phones periodically, as part of the upgrade process I have to wipe the phones and a nandroid backup doesn't always work.
Titanium Back Up is another option, But sometime i really would like to extract the .apk files from the Apps downloaded from Market.
Hence, I had to figure out a way to extract the .apk files from my phone so I could install them on theirs.
Here's how it's done:
There are two ways of extracting .apk files from your device:
Using a file manager like "EStrongs File Manager" or "ASTRO File Manger" (downloadable from the Market), or
Manually extracting .apk files through the Android SDK.
Method #1 - Using a file managerPrerequisite: Rooted device
Using ES File Manager
1) Open ES File Manager
2) Click on the menu button of your device
3) Click on "Manager"
4) Click on "App Manager"
5) Long press on app you want to extract
6) Click on "backup"
7) Extracted .apk files will be placed on the "backups" directory of your sd card
Using ASTRO
1) Open ASTRO File Manager
2) Click on the menu button of your device
3) Click on "tools"
4) Click on "Application Manager/Backup"
5) Choose apps to backup and click on "backup" to finish
6) Extracted .apk files will be placed on the "backups" directory of your sd card
Method #2 - Using the Android SDK
Prerequisites:
- Rooted phone
- Android SDK
- Android USB driver
To extract a .apk file from your device using the Android SDK:
1) Plug your “Rooted” Android device into your computer via the included USB cable.
2) From your adb command line (usually C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\) type “adb shell“ and press enter
3) Switch to root user, type “su“ and press enter
4) type “cd data/app“ and press enter
5) List all the installed apk files, type “ls“ and press enter (find the one you want to extract)
In another command window, pull one of the files on to your computer by typing:
“adb pull /data/app/application.apk name.apk” and press enter
Example:
“adb pull data/app/com.mauri.aplikeishon.apk aplikeishon.apk”
You can find the extracted .apk files in the /tools/ directory of your SDK (usually C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\)
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maurinet said:
This is MY POST! Some credit and a link to the original post would be the right thing to do. What a ****!
mauweb.net/3.0/en/technology/17-android/100-icon-androidextracting-apk-files-from-your-android .html
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thanks for informing this ..and it was reported
OP has been notified.
Cheers big-ears!
Easier Method
Why not just use a root file manager and navigate to the file and copy it?
root>data>app
- tom
or just use Titanium Backup... haha
Some backup apps like Android Assistant also allows to create .apk from installed apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEsImNvbS5hZHZhbmNlZHByb2Nlc3NtYW5hZ2VyIl0.
tnx dude
it was helpful for unrooted phones.
"Share apps" also do this
Mobogenie
Well years have passed and android has now embarked on the L journey but I recently saw this post and remembered i too had the need to backup the apps on my phone so I used a function of the desktop version of the mobogenie software.:good:
You can use my this tool to extract apk file
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andatsoft.myapk.fwa
Its very light and fast.
How to extract apk files in Android
Here's how I extract apk files in android:
1. Download and install APK Extractor in your device. It is free, and is compatible in almost all of the Android devices. Another plus point is it does not even require root or anything to work.
2. After you have it installed, launch it. There you will see a list of apps which are in your device, which include the apps you’ve installed later, along with the system apps. Long press any app you want to extract (you can select multiple or all apps at once), and click on the extract option you see in the top. You will also have the option to share via Bluetooth or messaging.
3. You’re done, you will see the extracted apps as AppName_AppPackage_AppVersionName_AppVersionCode.apk, which will be saved in the path /sdcard/ExtractedApks/ by default.
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Source: http://appslova.com/how-to-extract-apk-files-in-android/
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This is the first release of TiB that has not been able to locate my TitaniumBackup_license.txt file. I am using a Nexus 6 on MRA58K (M) with SuperSU 2.52 and TiB 7.2.4. Stock with the exception of a modified stock kernel. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/kernel-stock-kernel-root-color-control-t3218958)
Here is what I did to get it working:
If you have a proper key file named "TitaniumBackup_license.txt" try this:
1. Copy TitaniumBackup_license.txt to root of your device (/) using ES File Explorer with root permissions enabled.
2. After you copy the file to the root of your phone (NOT SDCARD root!), from the root directory of your phone, hit home button while in ES File Explorer. This basically leaves ES File Explorer running and in the proper place for this trick to work.
3. Go to Chrome browser and download any random image, use save! Long press an image and do save image. Hit home button.
4. Go to notification shade and open the now downloaded image with ES File Explorer ONCE (do not set as default). This step assumes you do NOT have a default image viewer. If you DO have a default image viewer it needs to be ES File Explorer OR nothing. Ex. If Google Photos opens, then you need to clear defaults for Google Photos.
5. Once image is loaded in ES File Explorer, hit back button and it should put you at root of ES File Explorer. This is the exact same place you left ES File Explorer in step 2.
6. Navigate to /storage/emulated/legacy this directory should be strangely empty. It will not be your typical SDCARD contents. You might only see titanium backup folder that is empty or some other random folder. THIS odd empty directory is where TB looks for the key file!
7. Navigate back to / and copy TitaniumBackup_license.txt to /storage/emulated/legacy
8. Restart Titanium and it should be good to go for registered key!
9. DELETE the TitaniumBackup_license.txt file from / as it or any other random file should NOT be here in your system ROM.
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XDA Assist is here to help navigate the site, not for questions or information. Please post this in an appropriate area. Assist is not that. :good:
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Is it possible to save or extrack games with progress in apk file. I searched on web for such an app but couldn't find any.I have used helium backup app but it requires root access which makes it impossible to restore game with progress on non rooted device.So I was thinking of a way to make it more simple and universal , just like an app extractor.
More simple words:
(Extract game from rooted phone with progress and save it as apk file then install the apk file on non rooted phone and keep the same progress in game)
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
You can use ES file explorer to make a backup of the APK and then open your Android folder(or you may have a folder for the game that isn't in the Android folder) on internal sdcard and find the folder that is associated with the game and copy that folder, it contains your game data.
Then you take the APK backup and the copied folder containing the app data for that game and manually install the APK on the other device then move the copied folder to the Android folder(or if there was a folder for the game not in Android folder then place the copied folder in the same location it was in on the other device) and you should have what you want.
SFA is a system manager which uses when we save/open files in the system for other apps.
For instance: i open pcloud to upload some files, press choose and it opens SFA.
The problem that SFA has virtual download folder which shows all downloads: from real download folder + downloads from apps which have no access to device memory.
When the Google assistant had no access to memory it downloaded files to its folder which in the system.
I have no root, so I can't delete these files. Maybe somebody knows how to remove these files using ADB?
Here are the screenshots to explain and show the problem. The screenshots show: the folder in total commander, the folder in SFA (root /downloads), the folder "downloads" which i underlined.
mediafire() com/folder/jvcz2dhmqkwje/SFA
PS Can i add my own folders to SFA favorites list (you can see on the screenshot: downloads, root, bugs, cloud storage)? Apps can add the to this list. Maybe it's possible to edit it?
Update (February 7, 2023)
Get the latest version of MixPlorer for Android 13 which was released a few days ago. Allow it to access data and obb folders. It's the only File Manager app that can access them right now.
Method 1-
• Download and install Files by Google
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android folder inside your device storage. Then move it to obb or data folder on Android.
Method 2-
• Download and install Mixplorer by Hootan Parsha.
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android/data or Android/obb folder inside your device storage. The app will ask you to choose the folder you want to modify. Simply open and select Android folder.
• Now you can copy/move without any hassle
Method 3 (requires root) -
• Download and install Root Explorer.
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android/data or Android/obb folder inside your device storage. It will ask write permission on the app, press okay.
• Then it will ask root permission. Grant it and you're good to go.
Method 4 (requires a custom recovery) -
• Reboot to TWRP, PitchBlack, OrangeFox
• Go to settings - mount and tick system
• Now go to recovery file manager, navigate to your file, tap or it or press and hold to get the options, then copy/paste it to Android/data or Android/obb
• Reboot
I know it's a really basic tutorial for a lot but the more people know the better.
Good day, update!
Method 1, ist kaput.
Does not work. Recognizes Android folder ONLY AND if you copy to it, it rejects your copy or move.
Method 2, failed as well
Don t know how to implement 3 n 4
On Samsung devices and others with android 12 and newest, simply doesn't work any method without root, even when u have app that is asking for permission to have access to copy or do something with android folder, because even with that kind of app your every next move is handled by samsung app, so needless to say, u need to do a root...
OneAboveAll132 said:
On Samsung devices and others with android 12 and newest, simply doesn't work any method without root, even when u have app that is asking for permission to have access to copy or do something with android folder, because even with that kind of app your every next move is handled by samsung app, so needless to say, u need to do a root...
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Get the latest version of MixPlorer for Android 13 which was released a few days ago. Allow it to access data and obb folders. It's the only File Manager app that can access them right now.
RyanCr7 said:
Get the latest version of MixPlorer for Android 13 which was released a few days ago. Allow it to access data and obb folders. It's the only File Manager app that can access them right now.
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I have that, its not working, its switching back to standart Samsung file manager because of protect, how i told
RyanCr7 said:
Update (February 7, 2023)
Get the latest version of MixPlorer for Android 13 which was released a few days ago. Allow it to access data and obb folders. It's the only File Manager app that can access them right now.
Method 1-
• Download and install Files by Google
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android folder inside your device storage. Then move it to obb or data folder on Android.
Method 2-
• Download and install Mixplorer by Hootan Parsha.
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android/data or Android/obb folder inside your device storage. The app will ask you to choose the folder you want to modify. Simply open and select Android folder.
• Now you can copy/move without any hassle
Method 3 (requires root) -
• Download and install Root Explorer.
• Tap and hold on it, go to app info, allow the app to modify system settings
• Open the app, copy your game/app obb or data file to the Android/data or Android/obb folder inside your device storage. It will ask write permission on the app, press okay.
• Then it will ask root permission. Grant it and you're good to go.
Method 4 (requires a custom recovery) -
• Reboot to TWRP, PitchBlack, OrangeFox
• Go to settings - mount and tick system
• Now go to recovery file manager, navigate to your file, tap or it or press and hold to get the options, then copy/paste it to Android/data or Android/obb
• Reboot
I know it's a really basic tutorial for a lot but the more people know the better.
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Only method 4 worked.