How to get package name from anywhere

Question

I am aware of the availability of Context getApplicationContext   and View getContext    through which I can actually call Context getPackageName   to retrieve the package name of an application   They work if I call from a method to which a View or an Activity object is available  but if I want to find the package name from a totally independent class with no View or Activity  is there a way to do that  directly or indirectly

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An idea is to have a static variable in your main activity, instantiated to be the package name. Then just reference that variable.

You will have to initialize it in the main activity's onCreate() method:

Global to the class:

public static String PACKAGE_NAME;

Then..

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    PACKAGE_NAME = getApplicationContext().getPackageName();
}

You can then access it via Main.PACKAGE_NAME.

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Create a java module to be initially run when starting your app  This module would be extending the android Application class and would initialize any global app variables and also contain app-wide utility routines -   public class MyApplicationName extends Application        private final String PACKAGE NAME    com mysite myAppPackageName        public String getPackageName     return PACKAGE NAME        Of course  this could include logic to obtain the package name from the android system  however  the above is smaller  faster and cleaner code than obtaining it from android   Be sure to place an entry in your AndroidManifest xml file to tell android to run your application module before running any activities -   lt application      android name   MyApplicationName            gt    Then  to obtain the package name from any other module  enter  MyApp myApp    MyApp  getApplicationContext    String myPackage   myApp getPackageName      Using an application module also gives you a context for modules that need but don t have a context

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Use   BuildConfig APPLICATION ID to get PACKAGE NAME anywhere  ie  services  receiver  activity  fragment  etc    Example   String PackageName   BuildConfig APPLICATION ID

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Just import Android app then you can use   lt br  gt Application getProcessName   lt br  gt   Get the current Application Process Name without context  view  or activity

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PackageInfo pinfo   this getPackageManager   getPackageInfo getPackageName    0            String sVersionCode   pinfo versionCode     1          String sVersionName   pinfo versionName     1 0          String sPackName   getPackageName       cz okhelp my app          int nSdkVersion   Integer parseInt Build VERSION SDK             int nSdkVers   Build VERSION SDK INT     Hope it will work

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If you use the gradle-android-plugin to build your app  then you can use  BuildConfig APPLICATION ID   to retrieve the package name from any scope  incl  a static one

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If with the word  anywhere  you mean without having an explicit Context  for example from a background thread   you should define a class in your project like   public class MyApp extends Application       private static MyApp instance       public static MyApp getInstance             return instance             public static Context getContext            return instance             or return instance getApplicationContext                Override     public void onCreate             instance   this          super onCreate              Then in your manifest you need to add this class to the Name field at the Application tab  Or edit the xml and put   lt application     android name  com example app MyApp      android icon   drawable icon      android label   string app name                   lt activity                  and then from anywhere you can call  String packagename  MyApp getContext   getPackageName      Hope it helps

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If you use gradle build  use this  BuildConfig APPLICATION ID to get the package name of the application

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private String getApplicationName Context context  String data  int flag        final PackageManager pckManager   context getPackageManager       ApplicationInfo applicationInformation     try          applicationInformation   pckManager getApplicationInfo data  flag        catch  PackageManager NameNotFoundException e           applicationInformation   null          final String applicationName    String   applicationInformation    null   pckManager getApplicationLabel applicationInformation      unknown        return applicationName

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You can use undocumented method android app ActivityThread currentPackageName      Class lt   gt  clazz   Class forName  android app ActivityThread    Method method    clazz getDeclaredMethod  currentPackageName   null   String appPackageName    String  method invoke clazz  null     Caveat  This must be done on the main thread of the application   Thanks to this blog post for the idea  http   blog javia org static-the-android-application-package

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For those who are using Gradle  as  Billda mentioned  you can get the package name via   BuildConfig APPLICATION ID   This gives you the package name declared in your app gradle   android       defaultConfig           applicationId  com domain www            If you are interested to get the package name used by your java classes  which sometimes is different than applicationId   you can use  BuildConfig class getPackage   toString     If you are confused which one to use  read here      Note  The application ID used to be directly tied to your code s   package name  so some Android APIs use the term  package name  in   their method names and parameter names  but this is actually your   application ID  For example  the Context getPackageName   method   returns your application ID  There s no need to ever share your code s   true package name outside your app code

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You can get your package name like so      path to adb shell  pm list packages -f myapp  package  data app mycompany myapp-2 apk mycompany myapp   Here are the options     adb Android Debug Bridge version 1 0 32 Revision 09a0d98bebce-android   -a                            - directs adb to listen on all interfaces for a connection  -d                            - directs command to the only connected USB device                                  returns an error if more than one USB device is present   -e                            - directs command to the only running emulator                                   returns an error if more than one emulator is running   -s  lt specific device gt           - directs command to the device or emulator with the given                                  serial number or qualifier  Overrides ANDROID SERIAL                                  environment variable   -p  lt product name or path gt      - simple product name like  sooner   or                                  a relative absolute path to a product                                  out directory like  out target product sooner                                    If -p is not specified  the ANDROID PRODUCT OUT                                  environment variable is used  which must                                  be an absolute path   -H                            - Name of adb server host  default  localhost   -P                            - Port of adb server  default  5037   devices  -l                   - list all connected devices                                    -l  will also list device qualifiers   connect  lt host gt    lt port gt         - connect to a device via TCP IP                                  Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified   disconnect   lt host gt    lt port gt     - disconnect from a TCP IP device                                   Port 5555 is used by default if no port number is specified                                   Using this command with no additional arguments                                  will disconnect from all connected TCP IP devices   device commands    adb push  -p   lt local gt   lt remote gt                                 - copy file dir to device                                    -p  to display the transfer progress    adb pull  -p   -a   lt remote gt    lt local gt                                  - copy file dir from device                                    -p  to display the transfer progress                                     -a  means copy timestamp and mode    adb sync    lt directory gt        - copy host- gt device only if changed                                   -l means list but don t copy    adb shell                    - run remote shell interactively   adb shell  lt command gt           - run remote shell command   adb emu  lt command gt             - run emulator console command   adb logcat    lt filter-spec gt    - View device log   adb forward --list           - list all forward socket connections                                   the format is a list of lines with the following format                                       lt serial gt       lt local gt       lt remote gt    n    adb forward  lt local gt   lt remote gt  - forward socket connections                                  forward specs are one of                                     tcp  lt port gt                                     localabstract  lt unix domain socket name gt                                     localreserved  lt unix domain socket name gt                                     localfilesystem  lt unix domain socket name gt                                     dev  lt character device name gt                                     jdwp  lt process pid gt   remote only    adb forward --no-rebind  lt local gt   lt remote gt                                 - same as  adb forward  lt local gt   lt remote gt   but fails                                  if  lt local gt  is already forwarded   adb forward --remove  lt local gt  - remove a specific forward socket connection   adb forward --remove-all     - remove all forward socket connections   adb reverse --list           - list all reverse socket connections from device   adb reverse  lt remote gt   lt local gt  - reverse socket connections                                  reverse specs are one of                                     tcp  lt port gt                                     localabstract  lt unix domain socket name gt                                     localreserved  lt unix domain socket name gt                                     localfilesystem  lt unix domain socket name gt    adb reverse --norebind  lt remote gt   lt local gt                                 - same as  adb reverse  lt remote gt   lt local gt   but fails                                  if  lt remote gt  is already reversed    adb reverse --remove  lt remote gt                                 - remove a specific reversed socket connection   adb reverse --remove-all     - remove all reversed socket connections from device   adb jdwp                     - list PIDs of processes hosting a JDWP transport   adb install  -lrtsdg   lt file gt                                 - push this package file to the device and install it                                   -l  forward lock application                                    -r  replace existing application                                    -t  allow test packages                                    -s  install application on sdcard                                    -d  allow version code downgrade                                    -g  grant all runtime permissions    adb install-multiple  -lrtsdpg   lt file    gt                                 - push this package file to the device and install it                                   -l  forward lock application                                    -r  replace existing application                                    -t  allow test packages                                    -s  install application on sdcard                                    -d  allow version code downgrade                                    -p  partial application install                                    -g  grant all runtime permissions    adb uninstall  -k   lt package gt  - remove this app package from the device                                    -k  means keep the data and cache directories    adb bugreport                - return all information from the device                                  that should be included in a bug report     adb backup  -f  lt file gt    -apk -noapk   -obb -noobb   -shared -noshared   -all   -system -nosystem    lt packages    gt                                  - write an archive of the device s data to  lt file gt                                    If no -f option is supplied then the data is written                                  to  backup ab  in the current directory                                    -apk -noapk enable disable backup of the  apks themselves                                     in the archive  the default is noapk                                     -obb -noobb enable disable backup of any installed apk expansion                                      aka  obb  files associated with each application  the default                                     is noobb                                     -shared -noshared enable disable backup of the device s                                     shared storage   SD card contents  the default is noshared                                     -all means to back up all installed applications                                    -system -nosystem toggles whether -all automatically includes                                     system applications  the default is to include system apps                                     lt packages    gt  is the list of applications to be backed up   If                                     the -all or -shared flags are passed  then the package                                     list is optional   Applications explicitly given on the                                     command line will be included even if -nosystem would                                     ordinarily cause them to be omitted      adb restore  lt file gt            - restore device contents from the  lt file gt  backup archive    adb disable-verity           - disable dm-verity checking on USERDEBUG builds   adb enable-verity            - re-enable dm-verity checking on USERDEBUG builds   adb keygen  lt file gt             - generate adb public private key  The private key is stored in  lt file gt                                    and the public key is stored in  lt file gt  pub  Any existing files                                  are overwritten    adb help                     - show this help message   adb version                  - show version num  scripting    adb wait-for-device          - block until device is online   adb start-server             - ensure that there is a server running   adb kill-server              - kill the server if it is running   adb get-state                - prints  offline   bootloader   device   adb get-serialno             - prints   lt serial-number gt    adb get-devpath              - prints   lt device-path gt    adb remount                  - remounts the  system   vendor  if present  and  oem  if present  partitions on the device read-write   adb reboot  bootloader recovery                                 - reboots the device  optionally into the bootloader or recovery program    adb reboot sideload          - reboots the device into the sideload mode in recovery program  adb root required     adb reboot sideload-auto-reboot                                - reboots into the sideload mode  then reboots automatically after the sideload regardless of the result    adb sideload  lt file gt           - sideloads the given package   adb root                     - restarts the adbd daemon with root permissions   adb unroot                   - restarts the adbd daemon without root permissions   adb usb                      - restarts the adbd daemon listening on USB   adb tcpip  lt port gt              - restarts the adbd daemon listening on TCP on the specified port  networking    adb ppp  lt tty gt   parameters    - Run PPP over USB   Note  you should not automatically start a PPP connection    lt tty gt  refers to the tty for PPP stream  Eg  dev  dev omap csmi tty1   parameters  - Eg  defaultroute debug dump local notty usepeerdns  adb sync notes  adb sync    lt directory gt       lt localdir gt  can be interpreted in several ways     - If  lt directory gt  is not specified   system   vendor  if present    oem  if present  and  data partitions will be updated     - If it is  system    vendor    oem  or  data   only the corresponding partition     is updated   environment variables    ADB TRACE                    - Print debug information  A comma separated list of the following values                                  1 or all  adb  sockets  packets  rwx  usb  sync  sysdeps  transport  jdwp   ANDROID SERIAL               - The serial number to connect to  -s takes priority over this if given    ANDROID LOG TAGS             - When used with the logcat option  only these debug tags are printed

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