NativeScript AppList

A NativeScript module to handle the list of installed apps on a device.

License

MIT license

Platforms

• Android
• iOS (currently returns empty list!)

Installation

Run

tns plugin add nativescript-applist

inside your app project to install the module.

Demo

For quick start have a look at the demo/app/main-view-model.js file of the demo app to learn how it works.

Otherwise ...

Usage

Include

Include the module in your code-behind:

var AppList = require('nativescript-applist');

Get installed apps

AppList.getInstalledApps(function(apps) {
    for (var i = 0; i < apps.length; i++) {
        // TODO
    }
});

Each item of apps has the following properties:

| Name | Description | | ----- | ----------- | | displayName | The display name | | icon | If available: The icon as data url | | name | The internal (package) name | | version.code | The version code (Android only) | | version.name | The version name |

Additional options

// get apps with icons
AppList.getInstalledApps(function(apps) {
    // TODO
}, {
    withIcons: true
});

The 2nd parameter of AppList.getInstalledApps function has the following structure:

| Name | Description | | ----- | ----------- | | icon.format | The icon format. 0 = PNG, 1 = JPEG | | icon.quality | The icon quality between 0 and 100 | | withIcons | Also loads icons for each entry or not |