How do I get a list of all apps in an android device,which includes the system apps,and the uninstalled apps in storage.

CodePudding user response：

You can easily get all Applications installed on a device using this code :

Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null);
mainIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
List<ResolveInfo> pkgAppsList = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities( mainIntent, 0);

The pkgAppsList has all the Apps which includes system and user apps

CodePudding user response：

You can try out different methods as suggested in this link

List<ApplicationInfo> infos = getPackageManager().getInstalledApplications(PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);
        // create a list with sze of total number of apps 
        String[] apps = new String[infos.size()];
        int i = 0;
        // add all the app name in string list
        for (ApplicationInfo info : infos) {
            apps[i] = info.packageName;
            i  ;
        }

Let me know if this helped you