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

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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 <manifest> 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:<package_name> or http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:<package_name>. 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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