How to know my app is uninstalled from the device...?

Question

I have an app installed in many devices.

If app is uninstalled from any of the device I need an indication.

How to achieve this.

Thanks in advance...!

where you have to get indication ? in that device or any external device which controls/communicates with all your devices ? Please ask question clearly. — Yugandhar Babu, Dec 31 '11 at 06:21
You mean you want any alert or toast message that say this your application is uninstalled. right ? — Shreyash Mahajan, Dec 31 '11 at 06:22
If it is like that then you already got it while uninstalling it from the device. — Shreyash Mahajan, Dec 31 '11 at 06:22
he wants to know when a user uninstalls his app from their device — Bill Gary, Dec 31 '11 at 06:23
Android Default behaviour is autometicaly notify user that the xyz app is uninstalled from your device. — Shreyash Mahajan, Dec 31 '11 at 06:23
Possible duplicate of [Is it possible to detect Android app uninstall?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6209730/is-it-possible-to-detect-android-app-uninstall) — Sam, Apr 30 '17 at 03:51

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 31 '11 at 07:58

My proposal will be the following. You can intercept the intent for your application uninstall. Simply put the following code in your manifest file:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DELETE_PACKAGES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CLEAR_APP_CACHE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CLEAR_APP_USER_DATA" />

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <activity
        android:name=".UninstallIntentActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.DELETE" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="package" android:pathPattern="com.testpack.yourapp" />
        </intent-filter>



    </activity>

</application>

After this you can somehow process that your application is going to be deleted (for instance, send you a email), and call the package manager uninstaller.

My main activity is different. If I place this code my launcher activity will not launch when app started...! — Noby, Dec 31 '11 at 08:46
Yep, of coarse you should modify the code. Here I've showed just permissions that you need and intent-filter. — Yury, Dec 31 '11 at 09:06
Hi @Yury I want to send a mail to specific mail id wen user click on uninstall button.. Can u pls help me out.. — Vivek Elangovan, Jun 12 '15 at 10:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '11 at 06:22

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You cannot tell when someone uninstalls your app unless you keep track on the statistics in android market. And unless you have only a few installs, that may prove difficult

answered Dec 31 '11 at 06:22

Bill Gary

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Then there's no way to do it. – mseo Dec 31 '11 at 06:36
I am in search of programmatic approach for the same task. – Noby Dec 31 '11 at 06:47
you CANNOT know when a device uninstalls your app programatically lol – Bill Gary Dec 31 '11 at 06:51
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its not lol..!! It is done already by McAfee, NQ and many others. – Kishore Feb 07 '13 at 06:53
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@BillGary its also done by UC Browser. It opens a webpage when app is uninstalled. I don't know what made you lol. – Seshu Vinay Jan 07 '15 at 09:10

Tony Thian · Answer 3 · 2021-01-21T03:47:51.397

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What I did was creating a schedule job by sending an empty message to the device via GCM/FCM, if the response is "NotRegistered" from GCM/FCM then I know that the app has been removed from the device.

I do this "detection" once a day for reporting to show how many devices are still having my app installed.

edited Jan 21 '21 at 03:47

answered Jan 21 '21 at 03:41

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