Yes, technically there are many ways of extracting .apk's from Android devices, downloading from alternative sources, or even tricking the Google Play store using Chrome, but to the best of my knowledge these are against TOS / illegal and probably shouldn't be used in research.
I would recommend contacting the developers. On their website, they have a section for requesting academic licenses: http://www.eembc.org/memberinfo/umembership.php Although AndEBench isn't listed, they probably have some method for you to acquire it. Might even be free if you only want the APK and don't care about the source code. Good luck. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Anthony Gutierrez <atgut...@umich.edu>wrote: > I would never advocate such things... :-P > > Anthony Gutierrez > http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Jack Harvard <jack.harv...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Why not has a try "Download AndEBench apk" into Google? >> >> Jack Harvard >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Anthony Gutierrez <atgut...@umich.edu>wrote: >> >>> Google's user agreement dictates that APKs from the play store can only >>> be downloaded to approved Android devices; this does not include dev >>> boards. If you have such a device you can download it and should be >>> relatively easy to retrieve from your device. If you have no such device, >>> and the APK is not distributed independently by the authors, I don't know >>> how to get access to the APK. >>> >>> Anthony Gutierrez >>> http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Anthony,**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Thank you so much for your help! Do you know how to download a free APK >>>> from google play to PC? **** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Best regards**** >>>> >>>> Fangfei**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> *From:* gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org [mailto:gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org] >>>> *On Behalf Of *Anthony Gutierrez >>>> *Sent:* 2013年2月19日 11:21 >>>> >>>> *To:* gem5 users mailing list >>>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] questions on running benchmark on gem5**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Hi Fangfei,**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> If you want to try to install an APK on one of the gem5 disk images >>>> available at: http://gem5.org/bbench-gem5, it's pretty easy. As long >>>> as the APK doesn't require any unsupported devices, or isn't written with a >>>> version of Android that is incompatible with the disk image.**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Simply mount the image, then copy the apk file to /system/app. If you >>>> notice there are a few APKs that I added to the Gingerbread image, >>>> ReplicaIsland.apk and smartbench.apk. Both worked ok with this method. >>>> **** >>>> >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Anthony Gutierrez**** >>>> >>>> http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu> >>>> wrote:**** >>>> >>>> Hi Jack,**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> I haven’t got it work yet. I don’t have an Android device and actually >>>> have problem downloading the apk to PC. Could you provide more instructions >>>> on how to create an Android image containing an installed apk? Thank you >>>> very much!**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Best regards**** >>>> >>>> Fangfei**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> *From:* gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org [mailto:gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org] >>>> *On Behalf Of *Jack Harvard >>>> *Sent:* 2013年2月19日 10:42**** >>>> >>>> >>>> *To:* gem5 users mailing list >>>> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] questions on running benchmark on gem5**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Did you manage to run AndEBench? You can install the app in the Android >>>> image and then run it on gem5.**** >>>> >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Jack Harvard**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu> >>>> wrote:**** >>>> >>>> Hi,**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> I tried to run Bbench on gem5 with Gingerbread disk image (atomic mode >>>> and default configuration). The simulator took about 140 minutes to boot >>>> Android and start running the benchmark. But it seems that the benchmark >>>> stalled at certain web page after running for a while. I find that it is >>>> supposed to render a web page in ebay but used the wrong url with ewbay. I >>>> terminated the simulation manually after 97 hours but find that the >>>> statistics shows only 87 billion instructions were simulated. I was >>>> wondering what caused the problem and what is supposed to be the end of >>>> running of Bbench? Will the simulation exit automatically? How many >>>> instructions are there if I want to run Bbench to completion? I also >>>> downloaded an EEMBC benchmark: AndEbench, which is an Android app (.apk >>>> file). Can I run this app directly on gem5? If so, does anyone know how to >>>> install and run it on gem5? Thanks!**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Best regards**** >>>> >>>> Fangfei**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gem5-users mailing list >>>> gem5-users@gem5.org >>>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users**** >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gem5-users mailing list >>>> gem5-users@gem5.org >>>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gem5-users mailing list >>>> gem5-users@gem5.org >>>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gem5-users mailing list >>> gem5-users@gem5.org >>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> gem5-users@gem5.org >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > -- Gabriel Yessin B.S. 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