react-native-android-installed-apps-categories

This has been built off of "react-native-android-installed-apps-unblocking". This version also provides methods that return the App category from the play store. Additionally it provides methods to return apps specifically visible to the app drawer.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-android-installed-apps-categories

Mostly automatic installation

$ npx react-native link react-native-android-installed-apps-categories

Manual installation

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.androidinstalledapps.RNAndroidInstalledAppsPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNAndroidInstalledAppsPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-android-installed-apps-categories'
   project(':react-native-android-installed-apps-categories').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-android-installed-apps/android')
   

2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-android-installed-apps-categories')
   

Methods

1 - getApps()

2 - getNonSystemApps()

3 - getSystemApps()

4 - getNonsystemAppsCats()

5 - getAppDrawerApps()

6 - getAppDrawerAppsCats()

7 - handleCategoryIndividual()

Return Result

1-6

• packageName
• versionName
• versionCode
• firstInstallTime
• lastUpdateTime
• appName
• icon // Base64
• apkDir
• size // Bytes
• category (only available in method #4 & #6 )

7

• category

Usage

import RNAndroidInstalledApps from 'react-native-android-installed-apps-categories'
 
RNAndroidInstalledApps.getApps()
    .then((apps) => {
        this.setState({ apps })
    })
    .catch((error) => {
        alert(error)
    })
 
RNAndroidInstalledApps.handleCategoryIndividual('packageName')
    .then((apps) => {
        this.setState({ apps })
    })
    .catch((error) => {
        alert(error)
    })