[android-developers] Finding Specific Installed Applications at Run Time

2011-02-25 Thread argongold
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[] {

Re: [android-developers] Finding Specific Installed Applications at Run Time

2011-02-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Basically you can't do this in a way that will consistently work. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44 PM, argongold 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

Re: [android-developers] Finding Specific Installed Applications at Run Time

2011-02-25 Thread Marcin Orlowski
On 25 February 2011 08:44, argongold wrote: > Is there a better way , which is not  language dependent to get the > specific applications . I haven't tried using the full package name. Package name is better but see the below note. > Do you have better suggestion for it? Let user pick up which