How can I dynamically detect whether my application is system or normal?

Question

How do I differentiate between a system app and a normal app ? I looked through android PackageManager and could not find any.

Edit: I want

Answer 1

Forget PackageManager! You only asked about your own application. Within your Activity#onCreate(Bundle) you can just call getApplicationInfo() and test its flags like this:

boolean isSystemApp = (getApplicationInfo().flags
  & (ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM | ApplicationInfo.FLAG_UPDATED_SYSTEM_APP)) != 0;