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I wanted to share my experience since I believe many people who has a Google Glass wants to test how to install an android apk which was not designed for Google Glass. If you know other ways, please share below.

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  1. If you know the activity/package name:

    adb shell am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName
adb shell am start -n com.package.name/.ActivityName

  2. If you don’t know the activity/package name: (Credit: How to start an application using android ADB tools?)

    a. create a file named adb-run.sh with these 3 lines:

    pkg=$(aapt dump badging $1|awk -F" " '/package/ {print $2}' | awk -F"'" '/name=/ {print $2}')
act=$(aapt dump badging $1|awk -F" " '/launchable-activity/ {print $2}' | awk -F"'" '/name=/ {print $2}')
adb shell am start -n $pkg/$act

    b. chmod +x adb-run.sh to make it executable

    c. adb-run.sh myapp.apk

Note: This requires that you have aapt in your path. You can find it under the new build tools folder in the SDK:

$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/LOCATIONofSDK/platform-tools:/LOCATIONofSDK/build-tools/android-4.3' >> ~/.bash_profile
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Install Launchy which allows you to scroll through a list of all apps on the device. The code has recently been updated to allow launching through a voice trigger.

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