get launchable activity name of package from adb
You don't need root to pull the apk files from /data/app
. Sure, you might not have permissions to list the contents of that directory, but you can find the file locations of APKs with:
adb shell pm list packages -f
Then you can use adb pull
:
adb pull <APK path from previous command>
and then aapt
to get the information you want:
aapt dump badging <pulledfile.apk>
$ adb shell pm dump PACKAGE_NAME | grep -A 1 MAIN
Since Android 7.0 you can use adb shell cmd package resolve-activity
command to get the default activity of an installed app like this:
adb shell "cmd package resolve-activity --brief com.google.android.calculator | tail -n 1"
com.google.android.calculator/com.android.calculator2.Calculator