Android Application Icons

Android Application Icons

14/11/2025 Friday

Android Application Icons are records of app labels and icons that are cached by the launcher. They assist in verifying the existence of the app, identifying particular parts, and displaying the last refresh time of an icon entry.

Digital Forensics Values of Android Application Icons

From this artifact, by using the stored label and component name, this artifact verifies the existence of the application; it keeps the high- and low-resolution icon bitmaps cached for reporting purposes; it logs the context of the profile and the date of the last update to facilitate timeline analysis; and it displays the precise source path for every row to link results to the original database.

Location of Android Application Icons Artifacts

Android Application icons artifacts can be found at the following locations:

/data/data/com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher/databases/app_icons.db

Analyzing Android Application Icons Artifact with ArtiFast

This section will discuss how to use ArtiFast to extract Android Application Icons artifacts from Android machines’ files and what kind of digital forensics insights we can gain from the artifact.

After you have created your case and added evidence for the investigation, at the Artifact Selection phase, you can select Android Application Icons artifact parsers:

Once ArtiFast parsers plugins complete processing the artifact for analysis, it can be reviewed via “Artifact View” or “Timeline View,” with indexing, filtering, and searching capabilities. Below is a detailed description of Android Application Icons artifacts in ArtiFast.

Android Application Icons:

Label: The user-visible name of the app.
Component Name:The full component path (package/class).
Profile ID: : Android user/profile identifier for the entry.
Icon: The cached icon image (BLOB).
Icon: The low-res cached icon (BLOB).
System State: The launcher/system context when cached.
Version: The version value stored with the entry.
Database Row ID: The row identifier in the source database.

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