PrivacyFirst App

Privacy First!

Let's know about your existing applications! 
"Privacy First" is a one-stop solution to review all of your current installed applications in order to protect your privacy.
This will list apps that have the ability to access your personal information including messages, location, telephone calls, and contacts.

It even tells about the application that can cause advertisements on your mobile device.

Note: All of your personal data may or may not be read by your current apps, but this app will evaluate the functionality of the existing app on the basis of the permission you have already granted.

"Privacy First" will not determine/tell which apps will read your personal data. It's just about giving your current application information based on the application's permission you have already granted.

Your existing apps may require certain permissions to perform their actions. "Privacy First" app will not stop these kinds of applications.

"Privacy First" app allows you to determine which applications to retain and helps you to remove unwanted applications that breach your privacy.

Thanks for installing the app and don't leak your personal data to third-party apps! Stay Secure! 

Google Playstore Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=suram.privacy.first

How to remove Ads from Free Android Apps? Ads are annoying you while playing games/using apps?

How to remove Ads from Free Android Apps? Ads are annoying you while playing games/using apps? 

- No worries, Shoot out the app name to me. I will send you the app without any ads.

Android ADB Use full commands for Testing/Automation

1. Get list of connected android device. 

Command: adb devices -l
Out put: Prints all the connected devices ID's along with the state of it. State can be Offline/Online/Unauthorized.

If Offline try to unplug the device and plug it. Or restart the adb server to get the device back to online.
Unauthorized: Might the an alert presents on the device to accept the trust prompt.

2. Restart Adb server.

Command: adb kill-server

Command: adb start-server

Note: Restart adb server will resolve most of the issues

3. What is adb ? How it works? 

adb is tool/utility provided by google to interact with the connected android devices. By using adb we can connect the devices in shell mode and we can pass some commands and gets response from the devices. 

adbd  - is a process which runs on the devices and whatever the commands that we send from our system to device will read by this adbd and gives the response.

4. How can I connect to a single device when multiple devices are connected?

First run the below command to get the list of devices connected your system. 

Command: adb devices -l

Output: It will return the list of devices with the device id (Serial Numbers). 

Get the serial number. and run the below command to interact with the specific device. 

Command: adb -s <serial no of device> shell

Output: It will connect to the specific device and enter into shell. Now we can send commands to this specific device only.

One more example: 

We can use this command to reboot one specific device. 

Command: adb -s <serial no of device> reboot

How to fetch Android system apps (Apk installation files) or playstore installed files from Android device? 


How to fetch the Android apps (Apk files from Android Google playstore)?
1. Search for the app in Google Playstore > Open the app > Check out the URL >
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<<Package ID of the android app>>.

2. Use http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ website to download app. or else download this app directly on your device from google play-store.

How to fetch the system/playstore installed  apps which were already installed on Android device?
To run the below commands make sure that You have configured android sdk and correspanding path settings. And also enable usb debugging option on your device from devloper options (Device Settings).

Run the below command to fetch any System app or any installed app on your machine.

1. Command: adb shell pm list packages 

The above command will gives the list of apps bundle id's which are resided on your device. Choose the correspanding bundle ID which you want it.


2. Run the below command to get the path of the apk
Command: adb shell pm path <<bundle id>>

Here the apk path is /system/priv-app/Contacts.apk. by using adb pull command we can fetch the apk file from android phone.

Note: Instead of executing 1 & 2 command you use below command.
Command: Note: adb shell pm list packages -f 

3. Once you got the location of the apk file then use the below command to fetch the apk file.
Command: adb pull <<path>>

Finished!! Now you successfully downloaded the APK file, Go ahead and share the apk file. No need to download every time from playstore and avoid data usage charges!!.


Happy testing!!!

Is you Mobile app data base is encrypted? How to check on Non-Rooted devices?

Typically this feature will be validated on Security related applications like (BYOD Enterprise related applications, Emails...etc).

We always needs a rooted device to check wheather the saved files or the data base is encrypted or not. If you don't have a Rooted android device how you are going to validate this?
It's big challenge to the QA folks who involved in this kind of applications.

Yap!!! It's very easy to validate without having a Rooted device. There are 2 ways to achieve this.
1. Make your app in Debug mode.
2. Take the backup of your device or your application and validate it.

How a temp variable will cause bugs? 

Let say, An app is using a temp variable (let say block app after 10 failed attempts and each attempt is getting saved in a temporary variable).
In this case if the dev uses temp variable for no.of failed attempts.
After 10 failed attempts accessing to that app will be blocked. Here the magic starts...

• Killing an app: Typically any app when we kill the app (OS will remove the allocated memory of that app so all the temp variables will be wiped out. Hence the last failed attenmpts will be reset to 0. And now launch the app - Where we can able to access the app. 

• Restarting a device: If we restarts a device also will kill all the apps and allocated memory (Run time memory) as well. So Once after restarting the device where we can able to access the app. 

How to pull the Data base files of an app from android device?

Yes, Its possible in android if and only if its a rooted device. 

Requirements:

• Android SDK should be available in your system.
• Java should be available. 
• SQLLite browser app should be available in your system,

Where all the app data resides on android device?
Typically, all android apps data will be resides in a system folder (root/data/data/package name).
For all apps like system bulit in app or installed apps from play store.

How to Pull the database of an application?

Open Tools folder of android sdk(Androidsdk/tools). Open the tools folder where you can find monitor.bat application.
Open the monitor.bat(android device Monitor) application.
Once You opened the app, if you are connected any device to your system, it should be listed under device list. Choose the device.
In this app you can find several tabs. Choose File Explorer. Open data/data/<Your package Id>/expand to see the list of files available under that package.
Refer below screen shot.

Select the folder a file the then choose Pull option from the right upper corner. Save the file into your system. Refer below screen shot.