Pre-requisites

  • Install ADB
  • Connect your device and ensure adb devices shows up your phone

Finding an application label using package name

Setting up aapt binary on your Android

  1. Find your CPU Architecture by adb shell getprop ro.product.cpu.abi
  2. Depending on whether it’s ARM-based or x86-based, download the corresponding aapt binary from here:
    https://github.com/Calsign/APDE/tree/master/APDE/src/main/assets/aapt-binaries
  3. Assume you have downloaded aapt-arm-pie.
    Now push it to your device by: 
    adb push aapt-arm-pie /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/aapt-arm-pie

Getting App Label using package name

Assume you have the package name of Facebook App, which is com.facebook.katana

  1. Find the APK path by: 
    $ adb shell pm list packages -f com.facebook.katana

    Output:

    package:/data/app/com.facebook.katana-GMPd_3qgg3cd8W8EqgXTtA==/base.apk=com.facebook.katana
  2. Find the Application label of the APK by: 
    adb shell "/data/local/tmp/aapt-arm-pie dump badging /data/app/com.facebook.katana-GMPd_3qgg3cd8W8EqgXTtA==/base.apk | grep application-label"

Output:

application-label:'Facebook'

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