PackageManagerANE

Native extension for Adobe AIR that allows for interaction with the Android PackageManager.

It allows for the following:

• Get list of all system applications
• Get list of all user installed applicaitons
• Open another application on the device. This also supports passing an object of name/value string properties to be added as extras passed to the launching application
• Install application from the app store by id
• Uninstall application from the device

Available events:

    public static var ERROR_INSTALL_APP:String = "ERROR_INSTALL_APP";
    public static var ERROR_RUN_APP:String = "ERROR_RUN_APP";
    public static var ERROR_UNINSTALL_APP:String = "ERROR_UNINSTALL_APP";

    public static var GET_SYSTEM_APPS:String = "GET_SYSTEM_APPS";
    public static var GET_USER_APPS:String = "GET_USER_APPS";

    public static var SUCCESS_RUN_APP:String = "SUCCESS_RUN_APP";
    public static var SUCCESS_INSTALL_APP:String = "SUCCESS_INSTALL_APP";
    public static var SUCCESS_UNINSTALL_APP:String = "SUCCESS_UNINSTALL_APP";

Need to set a value in your app.xml for your air app

    <extensions>
        <extensionID>com.gearsandcogs.air.extensions.PackageManager</extensionID>
    </extensions>

Use case is pretty simple::

        public function PackageManagerService() {
            var pm:PackageManager = new PackageManager();
			var folder:File = File.userDirectory.resolvePath("com.folder.apk");									
			
            pm.addEventListener(PackageManagerEvent.GET_SYSTEM_APPS, systemAppsReturned);
            pm.addEventListener(PackageManagerEvent.GET_USER_APPS, userAppsReturned);
            pm.addEventListener(PackageManagerEvent.ERROR_RUN_APP, runAppError);
            pm.getUserApps();
            pm.getSystemApps();
            
            // Launch with no data passed
            pm.runApp("com.google.android.GoogleCamera");
            
            var dataForApp:Object = {
                name: "John Doe",
                email: "[email protected]",
                username: "jdoe"
            };
            // Launch with data object being passed to app
            pm.runApp("com.google.android.GoogleCamera", dataForApp);
            
            pm.installApp("com.google.android.SomeApp");
            pm.uninstallApp("com.google.android.SomeApp");					
								  	 						
			//Install app from device													
			pm.installLocalApp(folder.url + "/app.apk");
        }

        private function runAppError(e:PackageManagerEvent):void {
            trace("unable to run app: " + e.param);
        }

        private function userAppsReturned(data:PackageManagerEvent):void {
            trace("got the user apps back");
            trace(data.param);
        }

        private function systemAppsReturned(data:PackageManagerEvent):void {
            trace("got the system apps back");
            trace(data.param);
        }