android-package-managers

So right now I am trying to develop an Android App for my young children. I want to set a pin or passwords on selected applications for a particular amount of time to prevent them from opening the app. For example, let's say that my daughter wants to play angry birds for some time on my phone while I am doing work. I will select my important apps like messaging, gmail, etc and put a pin or password on it for 30 minutes while she plays angry birds. After 30 minutes, I get my phone from my daughter and I can open the app without a pin because the time limit expired. I have done a ton of research

I'm using Android Download Manager to download list of files. Lately I came across a crash report saying Unknown java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL content://downloads/my_downloads Then later, I figured it out that the reason is because user disabled Android Download Manager. I check if the Download Manager is disabled by checking it's package name with the code below. int state = this.getPackageManager().getApplicationEnabledSetting("com.android.providers.downloads"); And now, I need to find a way to enable the Download Manager if it is disabled. I tried setting it's enable state

I want to use meta-data in the Android manifest to customize the behavior of a service. <service android:name=".SampleService" android:exported="false"> <meta-data android:name="sampleName" android:resource="@string/sampleValue" /> </service> My service is part of a library, and it is possible some may put sensitive data into these attributes when they use my service. Are these meta-data attributes visible to other installed packages on the phone via the PackageManager even if the service is not exported? Are these meta-data attributes visible to other installed packages on the phone via the

What's the difference between installing an app using the install command and using the package manager's pm install command? Do they do the exact same job? Does one command actually call the other in the back? adb install -r APK_FILE adb shell pm install APK_FILE adb install is a command to run from a development host, which uploads a package somewhere temporary and then installs it. pm install is a command to run locally on the device. adb does indeed utilize the pm program on the device - see the source code at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/kitkat-mr2.2-release/adb

I've been trying to get an android application to install an APK on the sdcard programmatically but I'm running into a little trouble. This is how I'm doing it: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setDataAndType("ApkFilePath...","application/vnd.android.package-archive"); activity.startActivityForResult(intent,5000); Now that works ok, it brings the package manager and I can control what to do when the manager finishes installing the APK. But the issue that I'm having is that if at the end of the installation the user clicks on "Open" instead of "Done" the "OnActivityResult"

I want to get icons of my all installed apps. Can I get that icons using package manager? Is there any function for it? Or any other way to get icons of all installed apps in bitmap? Thanks! Ponmalar try { String pkg = "com.app.my";//your package name Drawable icon = getContext().getPackageManager().getApplicationIcon(pkg); imageView.setImageDrawable(icon); } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException ne) { } Check here for more details. I know i am too late for this answer. Above answers are pretty good. Your Question is:- Get icons of all installed apps in android? you want list of install