How to get list of all apps that in the home screen using ADB

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The command adb shell pm list packages print a list of all the installed apps. But I need a list of all the apps that displayed on the home screen ("Desktop"). Thank you.

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Yes you can use this commend

adb shell pm list packages -3

it's will filter to only show third party packages

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Using dump from AndroidViewClient/culebra (which in this case will be using adb as backend) as a quick and dirty approach, while your device is showing the home screen you can do

$ dump  | grep 'android.widget.TextView'

And you'll get the icons (TextViews) plus perhaps an extra component like the date

         android.widget.TextView com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher:id/clock Wednesday, Feb 16
   android.widget.TextView  Messages
   android.widget.TextView  Play Store
   android.widget.TextView  Chrome
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