Ways to identify App Package name and App Activity

Why there is need of App Package name and App Activity?

App Package name & App Activity name is required when we are doing automation for a particular app.

For example, if we want to automate dialer app using APPIUM (which I will be covering in upcoming posts) , then you need to have app package name & app activity.

Method 1: By using adb command

This is how we can have app package name and app activity

Fig 1. Select the Dialer app and launch

Fig 2. Dialer App launched

To get the package name & activity name run below command after launching the dialer app

adb shell 

shell@LS-5016:/ $dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp'

Below will be output on the command prompt

Fig 3. Run above command from cmd prompt

Method 2 : By Using aapt dump badging command

For this method, I have considered Amazon app. First we have to place the apk at given path C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\28.0.3

Later we can run below command at command prompt

C:\..\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\28.0.3>aapt dump badging "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\28.0.3\Amazon Shopping_v18.12.0.100_apkpure.com.apk"

Fig 4. Package name using aapt

Fig 5. App Activity using aapt