Listen to own application uninstall event on Android

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Here is a way you can get uninstall event of your own app.

Using inotify in native code.
For example: You can using inotify_add_watch to monitor your application’s data cache folder like: /data/data/your-package-name/cache.
When your application gets uninstalled, you can get the folder’s delete event.

Another key point is that inotify should run in a seperate process from your own application.
You can invoke fork() to do this.

I’ve already verified the logic. 🙂

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