Implicit intent to uninstall application?

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First of all, note that the ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE is only availible to android-14 (i.e. Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0). That said, the following code works for me:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.view.View;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.content.Intent;

public class TestActivity extends Activity
{
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        TextView view = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.test_view);
        view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
          public void onClick(View view){
            Uri packageUri = Uri.parse("package:org.klnusbaum.test");
            Intent uninstallIntent =
              new Intent(Intent.ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE, packageUri);
            startActivity(uninstallIntent);
          }
        });
    }
}

If you want to be able to do this on all versions of the android platform, just change the intent from Intent.ACTION_UNINSTALL_PACKAGE to Intent.ACTION_DELETE like @goto10 does.

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