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Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek

Reputation: 175375

Push application-readable file to Android device

I'm trying to push a file to an Android device and then read it within a test app. It doesn't particularly matter where the file is, I can hardcode the path in the app, but the file has to be written to the device separately. If I push the file somewhere with adb, it's owned by root with permissions 660 and the app can't open it. If I run-as the app and try to read the file, I get "Permission denied". If I try to chmod the file I get "Operation not permitted". Is there some way to do this, other than rooting the device?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2346

Answers (1)

Saurabh Meshram
Saurabh Meshram

Reputation: 8416

You could utilize Application's Internal Private Storage (usually present under /data/local/ which has explicit adb shell user access).

In your case you can do it as below.

# Create your file (On Host PC) #
$ touch hello.txt

# Push it to the device (If the below path doesnt exist, it will create it) #
$ adb push hello.txt /data/local/tmp
  0 KB/s (14 bytes in 0.043s)

# Switch to ADB Shell #
$ adb shell

# See Permissions before applying chmod #
shell@android:/ $ ls -l /data/local/tmp/
-rw-rw-rw- shell    shell          14 2015-07-14 15:35 hello.txt

# Change permissions using chmod # 
shell@android:/ $ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/hello.txt

# See Permissions after applying chmod #
shell@android:/ $ ls -l data/local/tmp/
-rwxrwxrwx shell    shell          14 2015-07-14 15:35 hello.txt

Tested on non-rooted Android phone. 

Android  OS : 5.0.2  
ADB version : Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.31

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Upvotes: 3

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