Basically you can't do this in a way that will consistently work.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44 PM, argongold <argongol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on an application, for which I have to display icons of
> specific applications such as "Email" , "Browser" and "Alarm Clock" .
> Currently I have defined a String Array with the Title names of these
> applications as shown below.
>
> private final String[] firstAppNames = new String[] {
> "Phone",
> "Messaging",
> "Contacts",
> "Browser",
> "Email",
> "Music",
> "Camera",
> "Gallery",
> "Alarm Clock",
> "Settings"
> };
>
> At run time I get a full list of installed application on the device
> and compare the Title of each installed application with strings
> defined in string array above and if the result of comparison is true
> then I collect the icon information for display from corresponding
> installed application.
>
> This works fine as long as device is using English language. But when
> the device's Language is set to other language such as "Chinese" the
> run time title string comparison fails for all the strings defined
> above in string array.
>
> Is there a better way , which is not language dependent to get the
> specific applications . I haven't tried using the full package name.
>
> Do you have better suggestion for it?
>
> Thanks in advance
> argongold
>
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