Background: from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, all installed paid apps are encrypted under /mnt/asec, while others are under /data/app.
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:
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.
As far as I know, they remain on /data/app folder: