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Could anybody please help me find a way to hide other application from my application. I’m retrieving a list of apps installed with check boxes and when I check some apps, those should be hidden from the application list in emulator. I’ve searched in google but I couldn’t find it. I am waiting for help….
Thanks,
You could create a custom launcher, in which you control which apps are shown (within your own launcher) by creating a list of apps within your own launcher.
You will not be able to hide apps from the general system. Android uses the Role\Group security model from Linux, and you (an app running within the Android OS) wouldn’t have the security permissions to hide apps from the user on a system level – to have that access right, you would need to be root.
Bottom line, you cannot create an app to hide other apps from the Android System (or the user). This is due to security restrictions (which make sense – malicious apps would be able to hide themselves from the user, which would be a bad thing).
If you wanted to do this in the emulator – you could actually make the changes in the source code of Android (which you can download and modify to your pleasure). This would work within an emulator only (you wouldn’t be able to install that on a real phone without hacking, or rooting).