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Android APK backup

Locate the package name

adb shell pm list packages

Locate the apk path

adb shell pm path com.google.android.youtube

adb pull out the APK file

adb  pull  /data/app/com.google.android.youtube-1/base.apk .

If it says “xxx does not exist”, then you can try copy the file to sdcard

adb shell
HWEVA:/ $ cp /data/app/com.google.android.youtube-1/base.apk /sdcard/

Then pull out the APK file

 adb pull /sdcard/base.apk .