react-native-android-packagemanager

Gives you some access to Android's PackageManager APIs, for instance to read the metadata inside an APK file.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-android-packagemanager --save

Easy installation

$ react-native link react-native-android-packagemanager

Manual installation

Android

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

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

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

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

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

     compile project(':react-native-android-packagemanager')
   

Usage

import RNAndroidPM from 'react-native-android-packagemanager';

RNAndroidPM.getPackageInfo('/storage/emulated/0/myapp.apk')
  .then(info => {
    console.log(info);
    /*
      {
        package: "com.example.myapp",
        label: "My App",
        versionName: "1.2.3",
        versionCode: 3,
        firstInstallTime: 1185920,
        lastUpdateTime: 1283058,
      }
    */
  })