Android package not debuggable

Question

I explicitly set my app debuggable to true in the AndroidManifest.xml and deployed it to my device through eclipse, but I still get the

run-as: Package 'com.mypackage' is not debuggable

when I run the command:

adb -d shell 'run-as com.mypackage cat /data/data/com.mypackage/databases/mydb.db > /sdcard/mydb.db'

What do I need to change to be able to debug my application?

Answer 1

Are you using release apk or debug apk for testing? If you use release version of the apk you wouldn't get the access. I would suggest you to build the application directly from Android Studio (remember that your Build Variant must be debug in Android Studio) and try using the command run-as "your.package.name"

Answer 2

If you are sure you built with and AndroidManifest.xml with debuggable=true, then uninstalling the package may work (caution: this will also wipe this apps' data).

adb uninstall your.package.name

It seems that AndroidManifest.xml is sticky, for reasons I don't fully understand. I would encounter this case when I had a non-debug APK as my initial install, and then sideload a debuggable APK later.

Answer 3

Like @ prudhvi said, this an be solved by settings build variant to debug