Find package name for Android apps to use Intent to launch Market app from web

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I m creating a mobile website that will include a page from which people can download relevant apps that we recommend  I ve found instructions for creating the links to launch the Market but this assumes that you are the developer of the app in question and know the exact package name    Is there any way to get the package name  other than just contacting the developers and asking   Also  it turns out that those instructions don t really work for creating web hyperlinks  They only give you a URI to reference in a string of Java code in another Android app  Our site is in Drupal  so Java is not going to work   For the iPhone  I found easy instructions for getting the URL link style I need from the iTunes store  so I m looking for info like that

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Here are easy way to get app s full package  we can use astro file manager app  You can get it on android market  Astro app manager show us app s full package

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Use aapt from the SDK like  aapt dump badging yourpkg apk   This will print the package name together with other info   the tools is located in   lt sdk home  build-tools android- lt api level  or  lt sdk home  platform-tools or  lt sdk home  platforms android- lt api level  tools  Updated according to geniusburger s comment  Thanks

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Adding to the above answers  To find the package name of installed apps on any android device  Go to Storage Android data  lt  package-name

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The following code will list them out   adb shell dumpsys package  lt packagename gt

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It depends where exactly you want to get the information from  You have a bunch of options    If you have a copy of the  apk  it s just a case of opening it as a zip file and looking at the AndroidManifest xml file  The top level  lt manifest gt  element will have a package attribute  If you have the app installed on a device and can connect using adb  you can launch adb shell and execute pm list packages -f  which shows the package name for each installed apk  If you just want to manually find a couple of package names  you can search for the app on http   www cyrket com m android   and the package name is shown in the URL You can also do it progmatically from an Android app using the PackageManager   Once you ve got the package name  you simply link to market   search q pname  lt package name gt  or http   market android com search q pname  lt package name gt   Both will open the market on an Android device  the latter obviously has the potential to work on other hardware as well  it doesn t at the minute

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Once you have the package name  as described Chris Smith s answer  you could should use an intent url for the link  It s a special format URL that will launch the package if the user has already installed it  or open the play store at the application s page if not     intent    Intent package qualified package name end   The app needs to support this  with an activity tagged as browsable  but many will

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Go to setting app  Click Storage  amp  USB  Click Phone Card  Click Android  Click Data    Now you can find the package names of all the apps that are installed in your phone

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Not sure if you still need this  but in http   www appbrain com    you look up the app and the package name is in the url  For example  http   www appbrain com app fruit-ninja com halfbrick fruitninja is the link for fruit ninja  Notice the bold

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The following bash script can be used to display the package and activity names in an apk  and launch the application by passing it an APK file   apk start sh  package  aapt dump badging      grep package   awk   print  2     sed s name   g   sed s     g  activity  aapt dump badging      grep Activity   awk   print  2     sed s name   g   sed s     g  echo echo package    package echo activity   activity echo echo Launching application on device     echo adb shell am start -n  package  activity   Then to launch the application in the emulator  simply supply the APK filename like so   apk start sh  tmp MyApp apk   Of course if you just want the package and activity name of the apk to be displayed  delete the last line of the script   You can stop an application in the same way by using this script   apk stop sh  package  aapt dump badging      grep package   awk   print  2     sed s name   g   sed s     g  adb shell am force-stop  package   like so   apk stop sh  tmp MyApp apk   Important Note  aapt can be found here     lt android sdk home gt  build-tools android- lt ver gt  aapt

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This is quite a difficult situation  you can get the package name from the apk file  but i assume you want to do it automatically    AndroLib has the package names for lots of apps but you would have to parse it as there is no API that i could find  Theres a dev section that may have some tools to help you   Good Luck

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You can search the app online in the Google Play Store   When found  check the url  for example  https   play google com store apps details id lutey FTPServer amp hl en    The id parameter corresponds to the package name of the application   In the case of the url in the example  the package name is lutey FTPServer

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If you want this information in your phone  then best is to use an app like  APKit  that shows the full package name of each app in you phone  This information can then be used in your phone

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