I am just starting out developing on android and currently only code directly on my devices (both galaxy nexus and nexus 7) using the amazing app AIDE.

Looking on here there are lots of answers for pulling the DB onto your computer using adb, but I'm not using a computer.

I am seeing answers on building the app in debuggable mode and using 'run-as' but I get a no permission error. I don't have root and am not totally averse to putting it on but want to make sure there are no non-root ways to do this.

I'm trying the run-as stuff using connectbot.

Thanks in advance