List all activities within an APK from the shell

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Is there a way to list all the activities of a particular .apk file from the shell? I found this post which describes how to list all the activities in an apk but it is not for the shell.

I'm using adb shell to connect to an emulator (though being able to adb shell on a device would be nice) — amccormack, Jul 01 '11 at 12:11
The aapt command can do that. See my post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5728903/reading-activity-names-from-apk-file-in-android — Albin, Sep 08 '11 at 10:16

score 51 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '12 at 07:14

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If you can pull out the apk file to your own machine, you can use the aapt command in the Android SDK

aapt dump xmltree <apk-file> AndroidManifest.xml

The format is a bit perplexing at first, but all the info is there.

answered Oct 07 '12 at 07:14

Albin

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Probably worth mentioning that the ``aapt`` binary can be found under the ``/build-tools//`` directory – Felipe Lima Oct 29 '14 at 21:48
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Seems to have moved to build-tools\\ – Andy Joiner Sep 10 '15 at 12:17

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 01 '18 at 07:20

The solution from @Albin will print all the elements in AndroidManifest.xml, we need to filter the output. Here is another solution only print activities as the question ask.

aapt list -a /path/to/the/apk | sed -n '/ activity /{:loop n;s/^.*android:name.*="\([^"]\{1,\}\)".*/\1/;T loop;p;t}'

List all activities within an APK from the shell

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