Load Activity and/or Application Logo Programmatically from Manifest

Question

I am trying to load the logo associated with the current activity and/or its parent application from the definition in the manifest. This technique has already worked succes

Answer 1

First you need to find all the applications that are installed. For this purpose us the following methods from package manager,

public abstract List getInstalledPackages (int flags)

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You can also use the following method for getting info on installed packages.

public abstract List getInstalledApplications (int flags)

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Now after getting the list, iterate it using the following method.

public Drawable getDrawable(String packageName,int resid,ApplicationInfo appInfo)

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Each iteration will give you the respective drawable of the package queried. here res id is the id of the icon..

R.drawable.icon