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Reading Android manifest file

Is it possible to read / parse the android manifest file in some way, as we do this for files in the raw folder, as indicated here:

http://eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/android/writeSD.html

getResources.ReadManifest..something like this ??

thanks
Sneha

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[Edit after OP comment]: you can use the Android PackageManaer http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html to get information about the contents of the manifest file that Android understands.

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As already suggested, you can use the PackageManager for this purpose. There are several methods that can return one or more PackageInfo objects, which in turn contain the public field ActivityInfo[] activities , if you also instruct it ... read below.

The documentation mentions the following:

An array of all tags included under, or null if there were none. This is only populated if the GET_ACTIVITIES flag is set.

Thus, make sure you specify this special flag when requesting information; for example, when using getPackageInfo(...) do:

 getPackageInfo("your.package.name", PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES)

If you need more detailed information, you can add several flags "or":

 getPackageInfo("your.package.name", PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES | PackageManager.GET_RECEIVERS)

Edit:

Alternatively, you can also use getActivityInfo(android.content.ComponentName, int) and catch a NameNotFoundException that will be NameNotFoundException if the requested Activity cannot be found, but in general this is considered an “abuse” of exceptions.

Anyway, up to you.

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