Via the Seedvault backup app for Android’s README.md
I today stumbled over this nice Gist by AnatomicJC explaining how to backup one’s Android phone and also how to remove unwanted apps via ADB (no root needed).
I remembered I indeed had at least one app on my Samsung phone I wanted to uninstall but couldn’t via Play Store: “Upday News”.
Googling for “upday news” it seems most people are, like me, interested in getting rid of it:
Following AnatomicJC’s short manual we first look for the app’s identifier:
adb shell pm list packages | grep -i upday
… but don’t find it. Huh?
Googling for “upday news package name” returns:
Information about upday for Samsung 3.1. 15157
Package Name de.axelspringer.yana.zeropage
WTF! It’s Axel Springer. Had I known, I would have thrown that app out long ago.
In my Alpine Linux WSL2 shell on my Windos work laptop:
flo-gram:~% /mnt/c/Users/fs-la/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb.exe shell pm uninstall --user 0 de.axelspringer.yana.zeropage
Success
Good riddance.