Get icons of all installed apps in android

android android-package-managers
Jai picture Jai · May 22, 2012 · Viewed 24.3k times · Source

I want to get icons of my all installed apps. Can I get that icons using package manager? Is there any function for it? Or any other way to get icons of all installed apps in bitmap?

Thanks!

Answer

Ponmalar picture Ponmalar · May 22, 2012 
try {
    String pkg = "com.app.my";//your package name
    Drawable icon = getContext().getPackageManager().getApplicationIcon(pkg);
    imageView.setImageDrawable(icon);
} catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException ne) {

}

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