installed-applications

I am using the following piece of code at the moment: List<PackageInfo> packs = getPackageManager().getInstalledPackages(0); but it returns Apps that have been installed by the both device manufacturer and me. How to limit it so that only the apps that I installed are returned? Zelimir // Flags: See below int flags = PackageManager.GET_META_DATA | PackageManager.GET_SHARED_LIBRARY_FILES | PackageManager.GET_UNINSTALLED_PACKAGES; PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); List<ApplicationInfo> applications = pm.getInstalledApplications(flags); for (ApplicationInfo appInfo : applications) { if (

I am in this situation where I have to display a button which says "Open myApp" (if myApp is installed on the device) or it says "Download myApp" (if myApp is not installed on the device) in an iphone app. To do this, I need to detect whether an app (with a known custom URL) has been installed on the device. How can I do this? Thanks in advance. UPDATED 8th January 2014 - 3 things you can do I actually had to do this for a client again. They wanted users to be able to open their second app from the main app if it had been installed. This is my finding. Use the canOpenURL method to check if an