Oh, sorry, didn't see that the specific information you need is part of 
what is available from stable APIs.

On Friday, March 23, 2012 2:26:44 PM UTC-4, Chris Stratton wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:55:00 PM UTC-4, exiquio wrote:
>>
>> My intent is to write and app that pulls the targetSdkVersion from all of 
>> a user's installed apps in order to present them with a clear picture of 
>> what should and should not run on their device in the event that they 
>> update to a newer build of Android. This in response to a user's question 
>> on XDA. I did a cursory search and decided it wasn't impossible and that I 
>> should just write something like that as I continue to learn the platform.
>>
>
> Non-portably, at least as of the last time I tried something similar you 
> can get the apk code paths out of packages.xml, open the apk's as zip 
> files, demangle the binary manifests (there's code for that on the net) and 
> pull out the information you seek.  Doing so becomes marginally off topic 
> for this group, but probably still of interest to your chosen target 
> audience.
>

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