Track app installs received from a mobile browser

Question

I have a mobile web app (opened on Android's browser, not a native one), that redirects the user to Google's Play store (for apps install). I want to track the app install (Assuming the user opened Google Play's native app and not web Google Play) to know that I was the referrer for that install. I found a solution here and here, but they are all taking about referring to Google play from within a native Android app. Do we have a solution for tracking app install that was referred from mobile browser?

Answer 1

Since you are using the app to display the webpage, you can use the same app to get list of app installed :

Try this :

    final PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
    // get a list of installed apps.
    List<ApplicationInfo> packages = pm.getInstalledApplications(PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);

    for (ApplicationInfo packageInfo : packages) {
        if (pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage(packageInfo.packageName) != null) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Installed package :" + packageInfo.packageName);
            String applicationName = (String) (packageInfo != null ? pm.getApplicationLabel(packageInfo)
                    : "(unknown)");
            Log.d(TAG, "Launch Name :" + applicationName);
        }
    }

So before launching the play you can maintain a list of all application that are present. And then it returns to your app you can again scan and check if the app was installed.

or you can implement

Android receiver example for package install/remove/replace