How can I browse and copy out the files in my Android AVD? I wish to view the contents of the Sqlite file the app modifies.
Use the File Manager in DDMS (either the standalone program or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse). Your SQLite databases should be in:
/data/data/your.package.here/databases/
where your.package.here is whatever package name you gave your application in the manifest.
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I have Eclipse installed on a Windows 7 PC and I'm writing my app there, using an emulator.
In DDMS within Eclipse, I can see the database my app has created BUT it is shown in a UNIX directory structure, as I might find it on an Android device, not in the context of a Windows directory structure.
The file must exist physically on my C: drive or a network drive somewhere but I've done a search with windows explorer and it cannot find the DB. I can find all my project files ok.
Any ideas?
The DB, like any other files the app creates are stored in the emulator. Most likely there is only an image of the whole emulator file system stored on the host. you will not find the individual files.
To get access to them, they can be exported via adb or via the Eclipse DDMS user interface. This is just like working with a real device.
Here is a simple way to view the data in your .db file:
1. In DDMS, select the .db file in the File Explorer and click on Pull File. This way you can save the file somewhere on your PC like your desktop for instance.
2. One way to see the data in the file is to use the SQLite Manager add-on for Firefox.
Try the following steps.
Eclipse -> Window -> Show View -> others -> File Explorer -> data -> data -> your project package -> databases.
You can export your database in this location.
I have an error due to the contents of a file stored in internal storage on my Android Emulator. (I wrote it to file). Is there a way I can view the internal storage used by my app in windows?
I've searched through my whole project folder, sdk, workspace etc and cant find anything. I saw someone in another question say it was in the /data folder, but i dont know where to look for that either.
Thanks
If you want to view the folder/file structure of the running emulator, you can do that with the Android Device Monitor which is included with the SDK.
Specifically, it has a File Explorer, which allows you to browse the folder structure on the device. It also has buttons which give you the adb push/pull functionality but from a GUI if this is easier for you to use.
In Android Studio on Mac you can go to View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer. Here you can use a finder-like structure.
They are stored in an img file inside the avd directory. If you are using Linux you can mount the img file via:
sudo mount -o loop ~/.android/avd/<youremulator>/sdcard.img <mountpoint>
Not sure if there is a way in Windows or Mac to view the contents of the img since they are either in ext3, ext4, or yaffs file system format (depending on what you are emulating) and windows doesn't easily support those file systems.
Your best bet is to use adb to copy the file directly out of the emulator while it is running as shown in adb --help:
adb pull <remote> [<local>] - copy file/dir from device
In Android Studio 3.2 and later you can access a device's internal storage by using the menu item
View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer
See this article for details: https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/device-file-explorer
...and this one to find out where the other components of Android Device Monitor ended up: https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/monitor
In Android N emulator you can easily get access Internal Memory.
Go to Emulator:
Settings -> Memory -> Internal Storage -> Others
Then a pop up will open. Click on explore. Then you will get access of Internal Storage.
in Android Studio 4.1 and later you can access a device's internal storage by using the menu item
View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer -> storage
First of all, I have tried to get the SQLite file from DDMS in Eclipse. However, the data folder is empty.
Then, I researched on google and I found that this may be my device haven't root.
Is it true?
Does there any other methods that I can debug the SQlite file even if my device do not need to root?
If You have the database file then you can Browse it.Their is Plug-In for Morzilla Firefox called SQLite Manager.Now you can Export the sqlite file..i mean database file from eclipse DDMS to your PC and import that file in the SQLite Manager..their you can see all your tables and Data for Debugging purpose.This was the way i used.
I've created an app on Android 2.2 and used emulator to to test the app. Also the app needs two files to be pushed, file A.xml onto data/data/com.android.myApp/files/A.xml and a sqlite database B.db onto data/data/com.android.myApp/databases/B.db.
Now I'm trying to test the app on a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.3 where I can't find any of those familiar folders. There are four folders: data, mnt, system, tmp. The data folder is empty and to add to my problem I can't find my application on the File explorer.
How can I find my app and push these files?
You don't have read permission on data folder.
you can follow this
First, put A.xml and B.db to assets folder
then open by
InputStream is = c.getAssets().open("A.xml");
The folder structure is no different than on earlier emulator versions. It might be that you need to be root in order to be allowed to list the contents of the /data directory.
One cannot see the contents of the /data directory of an actual device due to security reasons. Maybe you could use the PackageManager to seek more details on the packages installed.
I am trying to find the path for the android database files on Ubuntu 10.4, because I want to access with SQLite Browser. Someone can tell?
In Android, the database that you create for an application is only accessible to itself; other applications will not be able to access it.
Once created, the SQLite database is stored in the /data/data/<package_name>/databases folder of an Android device.
How to see the database file:
If you are using Eclipse:
switch to DDMS perspective - > File Browser -> Browse to data/data/your_package_name
folder. There you would see your database.
(To open DDMS Perspective, go to window -> open Perspective -> DDMS)
And also you can use the adb shell to cd to that directory and open the db with sqlite3.
You can also copy files or database from Android devices or from emulator by using adb pull , for more info refer this: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#copyfiles
The path of your application database?
You will have to pull it from the emu/cel.
I would recommend using questoidsqlitemanager:
Questoid SQLite Manager is built on
top of Dalvik Debug Monitor Server
(DDMS). This tool is intended for
Android developers to manage SQLite db
file on Android device emulator.