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What is the current installation path of Android paid app on device?


Background: from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, all installed paid apps are encrypted under /mnt/asec, while others are under /data/app.

Details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/08/08/jelly-bean-app-encryption-breaks-thousands-of-apps-in-the-play-store-google-disables-drm-for-now/

Currently when I download paid apps again from Play Store, I find that no app is actually encrypted under /mnt/asec. If I copy the base.apk using "adb pull", I can successfully install it on another phone.

Someone asked a similar question before:

What is the current status of Android app encryption?

but there's no clear answer regarding to the installation path.

Is the above mentioned encryption feature dismissed now? When did Google change it?

My device is Nexus 5 running the latest 5.0 Lollipop.


Solution

  • As far as I know, they remain on /data/app folder:

    /data/app/