How to check programmatically if an application is installed or not in Android?

Question

We have installed applications programmatically.

1. If the application is already installed in the device the application is open automatically.
2. Otherwis

Answer 1

I think using try/catch pattern is not very well for performance. I advice to use this:

public static boolean appInstalledOrNot(Context context, String uri) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
    List packageInfoList = pm.getInstalledPackages(PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES);
    if (packageInfoList != null) {
        for (PackageInfo packageInfo : packageInfoList) {
            String packageName = packageInfo.packageName;
            if (packageName != null && packageName.equals(uri)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}