How to get the path to the lib folder for an installed package

Question

Shared libraries .so files are placed in lib/armeabi in an apk file.

I have read after installation the libs gets extracted to /data/data/application_package/lib

Answer 1

String libraryPath = context.getFilesDir().getParentFile().getPath() + "/lib";

For better compatibility, use the following function:

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.GINGERBREAD)
public static String getLibraryDirectory(Context context) {
    int sdk_level = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;

    if (sdk_level >= Build.VERSION_CODES.GINGERBREAD) {
        return context.getApplicationInfo().nativeLibraryDir;
    } 
    else if (sdk_level >= Build.VERSION_CODES.DONUT) {
        return context.getApplicationInfo().dataDir + "/lib";
    }

    return "/data/data/" + context.getPackageName() + "/lib";
}