Get the category of any app programmatically in Android?

Question

I am working in an application where I am fetch all the application installed my device using this code :

final Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null);
 mainIntent.addCategory("com.myapp.MY_CATEGORY");
 final List<ResolveInfo> pkgAppsList =getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities( mainIntent, 0);

Now I want to categories the apps differently According to their Categories. Please Suggest me.

Answer 1

To know the category of an application you need to get the data from google play. you can check android-market-api. it is a third party api. according to their info

• You can browse market with any carrier or locale you want.
• Search for apps using keywords or package name.
• Retrieve an app info using an app ID.
• Retrieve comments using an app ID.
• Get PNG screenshots and icon

So you better check if you can parse the category info using this api.