See below On Saturday, October 6, 2012 12:50:12 AM UTC+1, Sergei Okhotnyi wrote: > > Let's assume that I have pre-installed some version of my program on > Android device (/system/app/MyApp.apk)
AOSP groups are here: http://source.android.com/community/index.html > It has predefined some strings (e.g. my_preinstalled_application_name) > At some point user updates this application with newer version from market > without this custom string. > I want my application in cases it is update to system one extract > this my_preinstalled_application_name and use it. > I've created some code, but stuck how to extract resource from apk: > > final PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager(); >> ApplicationInfo appInfo = >> pm.getApplicationInfo(context.getPackageName(), >> PackageManager.GET_DISABLED_COMPONENTS); >> if ((appInfo.flags & ApplicationInfo.FLAG_UPDATED_SYSTEM_APP) >> != 0) { >> try { >> File sysApps = new File("/system/app"); >> String[] preInstalls = sysApps.list(new >> FilenameFilter() { >> public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { >> if (name.endsWith(".apk")) { >> PackageInfo packageArchiveInfo = >> pm.getPackageArchiveInfo(new File(dir, name).getAbsolutePath(), 0); >> if (packageArchiveInfo != null) { >> if >> (packageArchiveInfo.packageName.equals(context.getPackageName())) { >> // extract string somehow ?????? >> return true; >> } >> } >> } >> return false; >> } >> }); >> } catch (Exception e) { >> Log.w(TAG, "Error accessing saved affiliation", e); >> } >> } > > > pm.getResourcesForApplication throws NullPointerException. > > Any thoughts? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
