android-package-managers

I want to get the name and package name of a third party application installed in Android. I have tried but I got the name of all applications (third party and pre installed). How can I identify whether an application is a system application or an other application? Nitin This will do the trick...cheers :) PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); List<PackageInfo> list = pm.getInstalledPackages(0); for (PackageInfo pi : list) { ApplicationInfo ai; try { ai = pm.getApplicationInfo(pi.packageName, 0); System.out.println(">>>>>>packages is<<<<<<<<" + ai.publicSourceDir); // this condition if

I'm trying to get the size occupied by my application package. Every application has one location in the internal/external storage. I want to calculate the size of the following directory, how can I do that? I know I can use StorageStateManager on and above Oreo (API 26) devices, but how can I achieve this before oreo devices. Application Directory : /Android/data/myapplicationpackage I'm trying to use PackageStats but It's giving me always zero. What's the actual way to use this code? I used the following code and it gives me all zero. PackageStats stats = new PackageStats(context

Status: Really thankful to all who helped and guided here and in part-1! I have made code out of research and help given and have put that working code in EDIT-1 . Criticisms are welcomed to make the code better. Scenario: I asked the question mention in Part-1, but for some reason I can persistently cannot make a design and correct strategy with code that has true integration and sanity. It was a lengthy question and the question nor answer could have been concluded or finalized in just one episode, so I have made this second part as a synopsis. May be I am incompetent or just disturbed

I am trying to get the values of minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion from an apk stored on the device. Getting other details are discussed here , but only the targetSdkVersion is available in the ApplicationInfo class. Can the minSdkVersion be obtained other than by extracting the apk file and reading AndroidManifest.xml? JohanShogun I do not believe this is possible to do on your own and there is no pre-made api for this. The current methods that read and parse the AndroidManifest do not consider minSdkVersion at all. In order to check your apk file without using the ready made functions you

I know how to install an application to an Android device e.g from Play-Store or via an .apk file. But I'd like to understand the actual process of installation. E.g. on Windows: Serial codes etc. are placed in the registry Files important to the running of software are placed within the Program Files folder ( the main .exe etc. ) So far, what I do know about the Android application installation process is: After an android application has been executed (post-installation), data freshly downloaded is placed in locations like: Android/data or Android/obb etc. If specifically expressed by an

Is there an easy way to get gradle to update dependencies to their latest available version? For build reproducibility all my dependencies are defined with a version number like this in my build.gradle file: dependencies { compile 'namespace:package1:version' compile 'namespace:package2:version' compile 'namespace:package3:version' } Periodically I want to update every package to their latest version. Typically this is the first thing I do for a new sprint after making a release. It's a real pain doing this manually for each package. Ideally I would like a command to update the build.gradle