asked 2020-02-09 02:51:52 +0200
The apk files are here find /home/.android/data/app |grep apk but the xml inside are binary.
How to get the version of an installed android app via bash/cli? Any other xml file or similar?
answered 2020-02-11 01:14:17 +0200
For the record answering my self: This binary stuff in the apk's seems to be more challenging that i expected. For my goal I find a different solution via "side channel":
$ for a in "/usr/share/jolla-settings/entries/apkd_launcher_*" ; do grep -h -E 'Version|Name' ${a} ; done
Thanks for the comments anyway ...
Nicely done!
It works a treat, I only have on Android app installed and I already knew the version number, but only by looking at info within the app.
Spam Hunter ( 2020-02-11 01:17:37 +0200 )editAsked: 2020-02-09 02:51:52 +0200
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try using android shell for that instead of ahacking around
coderus ( 2020-02-09 10:44:30 +0200 )editI am not so familiar with the android eco system, so I do really appreciate any concrete hint how to acomplish this (using that shell)? Thanks
Leon ( 2020-02-10 01:02:09 +0200 )edit@Leon
Have a look at the answer given by Richie Cotton, perhaps the info given still stands?
https://together.jolla.com/question/25144/how-to-find-the-version-number-of-apps/
Spam Hunter ( 2020-02-10 19:17:59 +0200 )edit