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Mario G.
Mario G.

Reputation: 393

Get app name knowing the name of the package

I would like to know the name of the application will have access to the package name. How can I do? I wrote this code but I'm not sure what I did.

    final PackageManager pm = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
    ApplicationInfo ai;
    try {
        ai = pm.getApplicationInfo(packageName, 0);
    } catch (final NameNotFoundException e) {
        ai = null;
    }
    final String applicationName = (String) (ai != null ? pm.getApplicationLabel(ai) : "(unknown)");

Upvotes: 1

Views: 525

Answers (1)

user2511882
user2511882

Reputation: 9152

Try this:

final PackageManager pm = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
ApplicationInfo ai;
try {
    ai = pm.getApplicationInfo( this.getPackageName(), 0);
} catch (final NameNotFoundException e) {
    ai = null;
}
final String applicationName = (String) (ai != null ? pm.getApplicationLabel(ai) : "(unknown)");

What you did is also correct. Only thing that you might want to put it in a try catch to prevent exception causing the app to crash

Upvotes: 2

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