AsyncTask and getInstalledPackages() fail

Question

I don\'t really understand what is happening and maybe you can give me an idea. I use getInstalledPackages() in order to get a list of all user installed applications and th

Answer 1

I'm proposing a different explanation:

The IPC buffer runs full and on earlier Android versions (sub API15) just an empty list is returned while on newer Android versions a TransactionTooLargeException is thrown.

Also see: PackageManager.getInstalledPackages() returns empty list