JakeWharton / JakeWharton/pidcat
Getting package list with "ls /data/data" not working on recent Android versions
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Description
I'm not getting autocompletion for package names with Android 12 emulator.
The reason is that this command fails:
```
adb $device_selected shell ls /data/data 2>/dev/null
```
because of a permissions issue:
```
adb shell ls /data/data
ls: /data/data: Permission denied
```
This replacement works fine for me:
```
local apks=$(adb $device_selected shell pm list packages 2>/dev/null | sed "s/package://g" | tr '\n' ' ' | tr -d '\r')
```
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Research direction
Search the package-name autocompletion code for the `/data/data` command and trace how its output becomes the package list. Reproduce the failure on an Android 12 emulator, then verify that package-name completion works using the `pm list packages` output without exposing permission errors.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, python
- Domain
- cli, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100