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user3361508
user3361508

Reputation: 825

How to get Android developer identity information from within Android app code?

I am trying to write a piece of code to get the Android developer identity information (e.g. developer id, public key, etc.)

Does anyone know how can I do this? Presumably, the package information of all apps are held in Package Manager. Is there any API calls available to contact PM and get developer related information?

To understand more about Android signing process, how/when does Android system verify the identity of app developer by verifying the certificate signed by developer? Where is the public key to the certificate held on Android framework? Is there other developer identity related information stored along with the public key? For instance, any developer identity related information in an app's manifest file?

Thanks a lot for any inputs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 769

Answers (1)

Ankit Popli
Ankit Popli

Reputation: 2837

AFAIK you can not get the information of the developer from the Package Manager.

If you still need the information badly, one method that may work for you is:

I know that this is not the best solution but it will work. Here you can read about Web Scraping just in case you are not aware of it.

Problem with this approach is that if Google changes the play market structure you might need to right a scraper again.

Hope this helps :)

I would like to know as well if there's any other better method than this.

Upvotes: 1

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