Hi folks,

In this post I talk about how to view an Android app’s SQLite database. You may need to do this for debugging purpose if develoing and Android app that stores data.

You can do this using Android Studio.

Go to View -> Tool Windows -> Device File Explorer.

In the Device File Explorer pane, navigate to dat/data/<your.app.package.name>/databases.

In here you should see three files for your database: one for the database, one for the -shm file and another for the -wal file. So if your database is called somedb in code, you would see files somedb-db, somedb-db-shm, somedb-db-wal. Cmd+click on all three files.

Then right-click and click Save As.

Select where to save them on your computer.

Once saved, you can open the main database on your computer using your favourite SQLite browser e.g. DB Browser for SQLite.

That’s all for now.

Happy software development.