I am retrieving android apps icons using this code : Drawable icon = icon

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Asked: June 7, 20262026-06-07T22:27:49+00:00 2026-06-07T22:27:49+00:00

I am retrieving android apps icons using this code : Drawable icon = icon

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I am retrieving android apps icons using this code :

Drawable icon = icon = p.applicationInfo.loadIcon(context.getPackageManager());

where p is PackageInfo class object.

I have implemented a server for android which handles requests and responses by client. Here when I send a GET request from client that is my browser, server generates a html page.

Problem is that I need to display retrieved android installed App Icons on html page and I used the following code to do that:

returnHtml += "<tr>";
returnHtml += "<td><img src=" + icon +" /></td>";
returnHtml += "<td>" + apps[0] + "</td>";
returnHtml +="<td>" + apps[1] + "</td>";
returnHtml += "<td>" + apps[2] + "</td>";
returnHtml +="<td>" + apps[3] + "</td>";
returnHtml +="</tr>";

Basically, here I am generating a table row with respective app info and displaying respective App icons in first column.But it’s not showing respective App icons instead displaying default icon image (small image with a question mark on it).

“icon” is a “Android Drawable” class object. Do I need to convert retrieved icon to some form or I need to store icon in some folder first ?

As my html pages are stored in assets folder which is not writable I can’t store icon images there. Is there any solution to display icon images directly from drawable object only ?