G'evening. I've installed an app from Google Play Market. Once I discovered that I can find pakages of installed apps in the "Android" folder via "explorer". I have Xiaomi Redmi 7. I checked how the pakage is named (it can be checked in the list of apps at the settings of my smartphone). Then I looked for the pakage in the "Android" folder but didn't find it. I didn't find it when searched by it's name either. I have a question: why can't I find the pakage searching by it's name?

P.S. I use built-in file manager (I named it "explorer") I use android of "9 PKQ1.181021.001" version

CodePudding user response：

The Android folder on your virtual SD card which you can see with an unrooted explorer only houses data for some application that require additional external storage.

Most data for most applications is kept under:

/data/data/<package.name>

Which is a folder you can not view unless you have root permission.

Even ADB is unable to access files in this folder.

If the specific app you are using does not have allowBackup flag set to false (by the developer), it may be possible to run:

adb backup package.name

Then unpack the backup file as explained here: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28481/how-do-you-extract-an-apps-data-from-a-full-backup-made-through-adb-backup/78183#78183