Retrieve Your Paid Apps APK?

[CptQuark]

Hello. So you can run android applications now via chrome. Obviously such is still in beta and lots of applications may not fully work but regardless I wanted to play around with some. Turns out quite a few did and which is more they didn't seem to have any issues. To do so you need the APK file.

I would now like to try out some of my paid applications from the play store. Now obviously because they're paid you can't use a website like [inappropriate link removed by Moderator] to get the APK. Is it possible to retrieve said file from google play?

 

[dpham00]

On your Android, You can use an app like Astro to backup apk

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[CptQuark]

I tried astro but it seems most paid applications are marked as protected and can't be backed up. I read about using adb to recover applications. This does give me some files that the application uses but not all it seems?

Can you not recover paid applications without rooting?