Android : How to get the package name of Android application

How to get the package name of Android application

There are multiple ways in which we can obtain the package name of Android .apk file. 
Here are the some quick ways to get the package name.


Step 1 : If its public app and available in https://play.google.com/store/apps , then search the app name and click on that particular app. you will get the package name as shown in below screenshot.

Demo of Step 1 :

Step 2 : Install the app on your device and run the below command to get the list of packages and search for your app. 
 *(Make sure ADB configured in your path variable, click here to know how to configure adb on Windows , For Mac - you can click here )

-> adb shell pm list packages 

Demo of Step 2 :

Step 3 : Again using the Android command , you can get the details of app , package name

-> aapt dump badging <path of apk> | grep <any_relevant_search_text>

for example :
-> aapt dump badging D:\facebook.app | grep package

   ** aapt stands for Android Asset Packaging Tool .

Demo of Step 3 :

Step 4 : [This step is now obsolete, as Appium UI has changed , if you have OLD Appium setup , you can still use it ] If you have Appium installed and locate the .apk file and it will list the package name as shown in below screenshot.

You can choose any above mentioned steps to get the package name of your app. Some other ways are also present to get the app name.But here i listed few easy way to get the package name. 

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Mac OS : How to configure Java Home , Maven & Android Home

Mac OS : How to configure JAVA Home ,Maven & Android Home

Recently I have started using Mac OS  and I had to configure my Development environment for automation . To get started with the basic needs i.e basic program to run , my system should have been configured with JAVA_HOME , ANDROID_HOME and Maven(M2_HOME).

I learnt the way how to configure all these settings, so I am sharing my knowledge in a best possible way which can be understood easily. Also watch out my Youtube Channel for videos related to this (link is given below)

Make sure you have all these binaries installed or are downloaded and kept it in some location.

Download location :

JAVA can be downloaded from (based on bitness of OS) :  click here to download

Android SDK can be downloaded from(download Android studio, it will download the sdk) : click here to download

Maven can be downloaded from(download Binary tar.gz) : click here to download

Let’s get started with configuring these settings in OS path.

You can watch a Youtube video OR follow the step by step procedure below 

Part 1

Part 2

Step 1 : Open Terminal on your Mac.

Step 2 : Type   cd ~/

Step 3 : Check whether you have .bash_profile present, type command

$ ls –al

Step 4 : If it is not present , let’s create it using command

$ touch .bash_profile

(** touch is a standard Unix command-line interface program in its default usage, it is equivalent of creating or opening a file and saving it without any change to the file contents.)

Step 5 : Hit command ls –al again to verify its presence

Step 6 : Now open .bash_profile file which is just created. And to open you can use either of the commands.

$ open –e .bash_profile

( **     -e   Opens with TextEdit.

          -t    Opens with default text editor. )

   OR

$ nano .bash_profile

(** GNU nano is a popular command line text editor used on many operating systems.)

 Above steps are common steps for configuring anything in PATH

Step 7 : How to configure JAVA_HOME

(You are required to give bin and jre path . Make sure to replace wth your path)

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/jre

Step 8 : How to configure ANDROID_HOME

(You are required to give platform-tools ,build-tools and tools folder path. Make sure to replace wth your path)

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/shakti/Library/Android/sdk

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools

export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools

Step 9 : How to configure MAVEN i.e M2_HOME

(You are required to give bin folder path. Make sure to replace wth your path) 

export M2_HOME=/Users/shakti/allmywork/tools/maven-3.5.2

export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

Step 10 : Save and close the .bash_profile

Step 11 : To refresh the file or reload the file, type below command

            $ source .bash_profile

Step 12 : Check whether all of these JAVA , MAVEN or ANDROID  configured properly or not by typing these multiple commands

-----------------------------------Java-------------------------------------------

$ echo $JAVA_HOME

 $ javac

 $ java --version

-----------------------------------Maven-------------------------------------------

$ echo $M2_HOME

$ mvn --version

$ mvn

-----------------------------------Android-------------------------------------------

$ echo $ANDROID_HOME

$ adb

$ adb devices

Hope this helps you a bit in understanding how to configure these in path in Mac OS.

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