The deletePackage method is not available to third party apps. To uninstall
an app you need to launch the uninstaller activity to have the user confirm
what is going on.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Roman <roman.baumgaert...@t-mobile.com>wrote:
>
> Check out the UninstallAppProgress.java source in packages/apps/
> PackageInstaller/src/com/android/packageinstaller
>
> Have a look at the method and follow the flow of deletePackage. You
> should be able to find out what exactly is called.
>
> public void initView() {
> requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
> setContentView(R.layout.op_progress);
> //initialize views
> PackageUtil.initAppSnippet(this, mAppInfo, R.id.app_snippet);
> TextView installTextView = (TextView)findViewById
> (R.id.center_text);
> installTextView.setText(R.string.uninstalling);
> final ProgressBar progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById
> (R.id.progress_bar);
> progressBar.setIndeterminate(true);
> PackageDeleteObserver observer = new PackageDeleteObserver();
> getPackageManager().deletePackage(mAppInfo.packageName,
> observer, 0);
> }
>
>
> --
> Roman Baumgaertner
> Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC
> ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together
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> author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily
> represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc.
>
> On Jul 2, 7:54 pm, aljo <aljochim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wan't to uninstall applications using my application... I can
> > retrieve the list of packages installed but I don't know how to remove
> > them... I used the PackageManager class, getInstalledApplications()
> > method... I can't find any method like removeApplication() or
> > uninstallApplication().
> >
> > the only method I saw in this class is the removePackageFromPreferred
> > (String packageName) method... It retrieves a list of preferred
> > packages.. I don't exactly know what preferred packages means or
> > somehow how to retrieve them... I tried to put a package name in the
> > method "removePackageFromPreferred (com.dev5.fivegame)" but it gives
> > an error...
> >
> > I'm kinda new to these stuffs so pardon me for my questions...
> >
>
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