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Bring back a file from where the device keeps downloads — Android's shared Download folder, or on iOS an app's own Documents — to check what an app saved. These call app_download.

Download​

public IDictionary<string, object?> Download(string name, string path)
public IDictionary<string, object?> Download(string name, string path, string app)
public byte[] Download(string name)

Brings back a file from where the device keeps downloads and saves it at path on this machine, to check what an app saved: Android's shared Download folder, or on an iOS simulator the Documents of the app in front. The copy's size is read back against the device's, on a simulator or a real iPhone alike. Downloads() lists what there is to fetch.

Returns The transfer: device, app (iOS), name, where, bytes, checked and path, the absolute path it was saved at.

As Download(string, string), from the Documents of app, a bundle id, rather than the app in front. Android ignores it.

Brings back a file from where the device keeps downloads, as Download(string, string) does, and returns its bytes rather than saving it — for a caller whose disk is not the daemon's.

PullPath​

public IDictionary<string, object?> PullPath(string devicePath, string path, string? app = null)

Brings back the file or folder at a path on the device — the paths PushPath takes — to path, which must not exist yet for a folder, and checks every file's size.

Returns The transfer, with files and folder.

Downloads​

public IList<IDictionary<string, object?>> Downloads()
public IList<IDictionary<string, object?>> Downloads(string app)

What the downloads folder holds, each file with name, bytes and modified: Android's shared Download folder, or on iOS, a simulator or a real iPhone, the Documents of the app in front.

As Downloads(), for the Documents of app, a bundle id, rather than the app in front. Android ignores it.

Examples​

Bring back a file an app saved​

var saved = device.Download("mobium-report.txt", "report.txt");
Console.WriteLine(saved["path"]);

// Or the file itself, as bytes
byte[] report = device.Download("mobium-report.txt");

The same call from the command line, mobium download mobium-report.txt -o report.txt, printed on an Android 15 emulator:

downloaded mobium-report.txt from Download/mobium-report.txt to …/report.txt (44 bytes) — confirmed by the copy's size read back against the device's

The Files Demo&#39;s Download the report saved mobium-report.txt in the Download folder, and the line under it says how big and which save it was; mobium download brought that file back — on an Android 15 emulator

The Files Demo's Download the report saved mobium-report.txt in the Download folder, and the line under it says how big and which save it was; mobium download brought that file back — on an Android 15 emulator

List what the folder holds​

foreach (var f in device.Downloads())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"{f["name"]} {f["bytes"]}");
}

The same call from the command line, mobium download, printed on an Android 15 emulator:

the Download folder holds 1 file
  mobium-report.txt                                44 bytes  2026-09-29 03:41

Bring back a folder from a path on the device​

var got = device.PullPath("/sdcard/seed", "seed-copy");
Console.WriteLine($"{got["files"]} {got["path"]}");

The same call from the command line, mobium download --device-path /sdcard/seed -o seed-copy, printed on an Android 15 emulator:

downloaded seed from /sdcard/seed to …/seed-copy (a folder of 2 files, 8 bytes) — confirmed by each of its 2 files' sizes read back against the device's