Capturing components of an application using a sandboxed environment

A computing device, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to perform the steps of:
• identifying an installed application on a computing device for producing an application package corresponding to the application;
• locating an executable file of the application on the computing device and moving the executable file into a sandboxed environment in the computing device, the sandboxed environment configured to detect accesses made by code running inside the sandboxed environment to components located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• executing the executable file in the sandboxed environment;
• identifying a first component of the application by detecting, by the sandboxed environment, an access made by the executable file to the first component located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• moving the first component to the sandboxed environment;
• identifying a second component of the application located outside of the sandboxed environment by detecting, by the sandboxed environment, an access made by the executable file or by the first component to the second component located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• and
• creating the application package comprised of the executable file, the identified first component and the second component.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, the instructions when executed by one or more processors causing the one or more processors to execute the operations of:

• identifying an installed application on a computing device for producing an application package corresponding to the application;
• locating an executable file of the application on the computing device and moving the executable file into a sandboxed environment in the computing device, the sandboxed environment configured to detect accesses made by code running inside the sandboxed environment to components located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• executing the executable file in the sandboxed environment;
• identifying a first component of the application by detecting, by the sandboxed environment, an access made by the executable file to the first component located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• moving the first component to the sandboxed environment;
• identifying a second component of the application located outside of the sandboxed environment by detecting, by the sandboxed environment, an access made by the executable file or by the first component to the second component located outside of the sandboxed environment;
• and
• creating the application package comprised of the executable file, the identified first component and the second component.