Question

I am trying to get the installed application in Android after clicking a icon. Under the icon click code I wrote following code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.ACTION_ALL_APPS);
startActivity(intent);

But it kills the application. I want to show the installed applications on the screen programmatically like when we see when press app key on Android.

Is it possible?
where am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

To get list of all installed application you can use the following code

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