Cannot pull APK from Android device with adb

Question

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

Answer 1

Try this:

$ adb shell cp /data/app/com.google.android.apps.books-1/base.apk /storage/emulated/0/Download/base.apk

then

$ adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Download/base.apk