Android Application from ADB

how to start apk from ADB

adb shell am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName 

and when you don't know about Activity Name

aapt d xmltree <path to apk> AndroidManifest.xml


or.. simply script




create a file named "adb-run.sh" with these 3 lines:

pkg=$(aapt dump badging $1|awk -F" " '/package/ {print $2}'|awk -F"'" '/name=/ {print $2}')
act=$(aapt dump badging $1|awk -F" " '/launchable-activity/ {print $2}'|awk -F"'" '/name=/ {print $2}')
adb shell am start -n $pkg/$act