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

You may access this attribute by next example:

PackageInfo packageInfo = context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(mPackageName, 0);
if (packageInfo.installLocation != PackageInfo.INSTALL_LOCATION_INTERNAL_ONLY) {
    .....
}

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInfo.html#installLocation
was introduced in API 21

But this field exists even in Android 2.3 http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/2.3_r1/android/content/pm/PackageInfo.java/