Accessing android:installLocation manifest attribute

Question

I\'m trying to write an Android 2.2 app that will find installed apps that can be moved to the SD card. The permission to do this is encoded in the AndroidManifest.xml file

Answer 1

In the older API's from 2007, there was public fields in the PackageInfo class that gave all information on the internalLocation and other relevant information. For security reasons I am guessing they got rid of those convenient fields.