Get app name from package name in android

Question

I'm trying to develop an android app that could list all app's which has cache, I successfully got the information about cache, but now I want to display those app which has some cache in the screen, I have the package name, but problem is how to get the application name from package name,

Let's say package name is com.android.browser then app name will be Browser

How to achieve this task ?

Please don't mind if this question is silly to you, please help me in solving this riddle, Thanks in advance.

Possible duplicate of [get application name from package name](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5841161/get-application-name-from-package-name) — mixel, Jan 19 '17 at 12:00

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 19 '16 at 20:04

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You need to use PackageManager to get detailed information about installed packages.

PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
ApplicationInfo applicationInfo = null;
try {
    applicationInfo = packageManager.getApplicationInfo(packageName, 0);
} catch (final NameNotFoundException e) {}
final String title = (String)((applicationInfo != null) ? packageManager.getApplicationLabel(applicationInfo) : "???");

edited Jul 19 '16 at 20:04

JRomero

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answered Jul 05 '13 at 13:23

Marcin Orlowski

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In the first approach `getApplicationName` you passed Context as parameter, but actually I want to get name of other app from my app, that means Context will be different right, then if we execute `int stringId = context.getApplicationInfo().labelRes;` we will get our present app `id` – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 13:29
Oh you removed first approach ? – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 13:30
I did as it was not answering your question – Marcin Orlowski Jul 05 '13 at 13:37
Ok Thanks @Marcin Orlowski for your time. But unfortunately this approach is not working. – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 13:39
what is not working? This will return application name (label) as set in app manifest – Marcin Orlowski Jul 05 '13 at 13:42
`context` is not defined. If I use getApplicationContext() then again it will not work – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 13:51
Thanks @Marcin Orlowsk,your code is working. I made a little modification as for my app requirement. – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 14:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 05 '13 at 15:29

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Try to use PackageManager#getActivityInfo(); There is field which contain app name.

edited Jul 05 '13 at 15:29

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answered Jul 05 '13 at 13:32

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How do you initialse PackageManager to your defined package name, let's say `com.android.browser` how will you initialse `PackageManager` to our own package @adek – Chethan Shetty Jul 05 '13 at 13:54

Get app name from package name in android

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