How can one pull the (private) data of one's own Android app?

Question

Attempting to pull a single file using

adb pull /data/data/com.corp.appName/files/myFile.txt myFile.txt

fails with

failed          


        

Answer 1

On MacOSX, by combining the answers from Calaf and Ollie Ford, the following worked for me.

On the command line (be sure adb is in your path, mine was at ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb) and with your android device plugged in and in USB debugging mode, run:

 adb backup -f backup com.mypackage.myapp

Your android device will ask you for permission to backup your data. Select "BACKUP MY DATA"

Wait a few moments.

The file backup will appear in the directory where you ran adb.

Now run:

dd if=backup bs=1 skip=24 | python -c "import zlib,sys;sys.stdout.write(zlib.decompress(sys.stdin.read()))" > backup.tar

Now you'll you have a backup.tar file you can untar like this:

 tar xvf backup.tar

And see all the files stored by your application.