I need a way to programatically determine if a HTC device runs sense
UI.

maybe use reflection to determine if some Sense UI packages exist?
but what are the names of these packages?

On Aug 1, 9:21 pm, YuviDroid <yuvidr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the HTC Desire the standard android home is not available, even by
> clearing defaults of the Sense home.
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:20 AM, { Devdroid } <webnet.andr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > You can't remove it if phone is not rooted as you got no write access
> > > to /system, true, but once you root your device you can wipe sense
> > packages.
>
> > Ah, true, wasn't thinking of rooting. Sorry!
>
> > > I believe you could do this on any device, by just clearing defaults
> > > in app prefs as you do  for any other app and installing i.e. Launcher
> > > Pro. On next "Home" press you will be asked what app shall be used,
> > > select Launcher Pro, mark it to be default and bye-bye Sense.
>
> > I saw reference recently that suggested this did not work everywhere.
> > I'm was thinking maybe Sense 2 (the current generation) vs. the
> > original Sense. But it works on a HTC Hero (just tried it), so that's
> > clearly not it.
>
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