Deleting Android database from the command line

Resources

• Official Google documentation on shell commands

My app on the Google play store

• The app

My app's GitHub code

• The GitHub

Short and fast explanation

• For those if you short on time, simply replace your.example.package and your_database_name with your own package/database name and run this command:

adb shell run-as your.example.package rm /data/data/your.example.package/databases/your_database_name

• If you get the error: unknown package, you can then run the command: adb shell pm list packages. Your package should be near the top of the list.

• If you get the error: No such file or directory, this indicates that the specified database file does not exist at the given path. To check the location of the database run the command:
  

adb shell run-as your.example.package ls /data/data/your.example.package/databases/

• The database should be the first one listed

Conclusion

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