We have developed a payment application with native android to compete in the local market. Our competitors have made it so that when their applications detect ours, theirs automatically disables itself. The problem is that our users use their applications as well so we wanted our application to be unidentifiable by the other apps. Our solutions for this have been distributing our app manually instead of playstore and generating a unique bundle id for each individual user.

What else can we do to get around this?

CodePudding user response：

till Android 10 any app can list ALL apps installed on device. starting Android 11 there are some limitations and by default you can't list all apps, so you are "safe". BUT 3rd-party may request QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission and will detect your app as well. note that Google Play Store have special policy for such apps, not every app may be published with it

still your app may be detected when it will use this 3rd-party apps API/Service (depends on way for access) and then it will lock itself