Ability to list installed packages

[cocool97]

• System packages
• User installed packages

[yulesxoxo]

I'll leave this here for anybody who wants to do it or in case I'll get back to it.

Scenario there are multiple users or Secure Folder enabled on the device and we do not have permissions for all of them

List all third party packages for all users:

cmd: shell pm list packages -3
output:

Exception occurred while executing 'list':
java.lang.SecurityException: Shell does not have permission to access user 150
 com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.handleIncomingUser:16014 android.app.ActivityManager.handleIncomingUser:5174 com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.translateUserId:3771
        at com.android.server.am.UserController.handleIncomingUser(UserController.java:2895)
        ...

List users

This could be used if the error message for lacking permissions should include the user name
cmd: shell pm list users
output:

Users:
        UserInfo{0:UserName:4c13} running
        UserInfo{150:Secure Folder:10061030} running

Here we can see that the User with ID is Secure Folder which is why it failed in the previous example.

Get current user ID

cmd: shell am get-current-user
output:

0

List all third party packages for current user:

cmd: ``shell pm list packages -3 --user 0`
output:

package:com.samsung.SMT.lang_ja_jp_m00
package:com.Slack
package:com.spotify.music
...