Obtain apk files

[dobey]

Or look into installing something like Aurora Store if you want apps from play store.

[aclifton314]

@Ingo Do you mind elaborating on how you pull the APKs off the second device?

[Ingo]

Found the place where I posted an example: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/ubports-16-04-updates-feature-tests/36656/90?u=ingo

Short summary:

• connect the android phone with USB cable and USB debugging enabled
• list all packages with adb shell pm list packages
• get the full path for the package name you’re interested in: adb shell pm path com.example.someapp
• pull the APK using the output of the last command: adb pull /data/app/com.example.someapp /path/to/desired/destination/com.example.someapp.apk

[aclifton314]

Awesome. Thank you!

Is there a certain place on the ubports phone I need to adb push the app? And to install it on the ubports phone, are these instructions sufficient ?(https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html)

EDIT:
I'm not sure which specific package I should pull as I see multiple ones:

$ adb shell pm path com.spotify.music
package:/data/app/com.spotify.music-1/base.apk
package:/data/app/com.spotify.music-1/split_config.armeabi_v7a.apk
package:/data/app/com.spotify.music-1/split_config.xhdpi.apk

So I tried the base package, did adb push base.apk /home/phablet/Downloads and then following the Anbox documentation (all commands entered from my PC with my ubports phone connected via USB):

adb shell
sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo apt update
adb install /home/phablet/Downloads/base.apk 

but I get:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ adb install /home/phablet/Downloads/base.apk
adb install /home/phablet/Downloads/base.apk
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device offline
- waiting for device -

and it just hangs. Any thoughts?

[Marathon2422]

@aclifton314
does your device need to be authorised IE, an "allow " window clicked on ? . To Allow adb connection

[aclifton314]

@Marathon2422 I'm not sure. I just reflashed my OPO (ubports device) to start over. I got anbox reinstalled and adb installed on my OPO:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ adb devices
adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
emulator-5558   offline

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

I can copy the spotify app from my android, to my PC, and push to the OPO (I put it in /home/phablet/Downloads as the instructions suggest).
on PC:

$ adb devices
List of devices attached
8a8165fa        device

$ adb push base.apk /home/phablet/Downloads
base.apk: 1 file pushed. 4.4 MB/s (16892152 bytes in 3.634s)

$ adb shell
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls /home/phablet/Downloads
ls /home/phablet/Downloads
base.apk

So it seems I can push the apk, but I can't install it:

$ adb shell
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls /home/phablet/Downloads
ls /home/phablet/Downloads
base.apk
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo mount -o rw,remount /

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt update
sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://repo.ubports.com xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://repo.ubports.com xenial Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
133 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ adb install /home/phablet/Downloads/base.apk
adb install /home/phablet/Downloads/base.apk
error: device offline
- waiting for device -

It just hangs. On the OPO I find:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ adb devices
adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5558   offline

Don't know if that is helpful or not. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I also don't know if base.apk is even the correct thing to try to install since there were two others choices when I did adb shell pm path com.spotify.music on my android device.

[Ingo]

IIRC when the adb command shows that the device is offline, try to start one of the pre-installed android apps. That should get it "online".

If that still doesn't work, there is an alternative method to install apps as described in https://forums.ubports.com/post/12491

[aclifton314]

@Ingo, thank you for the response. Naively, to start a preinstalled android app do I just tap it or is it better to start it with adb some how?

[Ingo]

Just tap it

[*mj214074]

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