List all activities within an APK from the shell

Question

Is there a way to list all the activities of a particular .apk file from the shell? I found this post which describes how to list all the activities in an apk but it is not for the shell.

Allo

Are you doing this on the device or on the computer? – Hollister

I'm using adb shell to connect to an emulator (though being able to adb shell on a device would be nice) – Allo

The aapt command can do that. See my post here: #5729403 – Gasoline

Answer 1

If you can pull out the apk file to your own machine, you can use the aapt command in the Android SDK

aapt dump xmltree <apk-file> AndroidManifest.xml

The format is a bit perplexing at first, but all the info is there.

Gasoline

Probably worth mentioning that the aapt binary can be found under the <sdk_dir>/build-tools/<version>/ directory – Lacewing

Seems to have moved to build-tools\<version>\ – Carillonneur

Answer 2

The solution from @Albin will print all the elements in AndroidManifest.xml, we need to filter the output. Here is another solution only print activities as the question ask.

aapt list -a /path/to/the/apk | sed -n '/ activity /{:loop n;s/^.*android:name.*="\([^"]\{1,\}\)".*/\1/;T loop;p;t}'

Jenjena