yash-garg/appcheck

A Flutter plugin that allows you to check if an app is installed/enabled, launch an app and get the list of installed apps.

Hello, I'm Yash, a 22-year-old Software Engineer with a keen focus on mobile side of things, working at Dyte mostly on WebRTC.

I try to actively contribute to open-source projects, and everything I create for personal use is openly available. My preferred frameworks are Android and Flutter, which I extensively leverage, reflecting in numerous projects I engage in.

Recently, I've been dedicating my free time to exploring SwiftUI and delving into the intricacies of Docker and Kubernetes.

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appcheck's Issues

Problems to recognize APP in IOS

Good I am having a problem and is that in iOS, when you check if there is for example the following application "com.myapp.testing" always fails or does not recognize the packageName. But instead when I take the example you provide for iOS. It does open the calendar and recognizes the applications but when you specify a specific package name it does not seem to recognize or locate the application installed on the emulator. I am using the following examples and none of them work correctly do you know how to solve it?

how to get ios package name

because for ios use package name like ("calshow://") so how i can get this type package name for different apps . i only check app is installed or not in ios device

Running example code, with exception thrown out

Nothing changed, just copy, build & run on Stimulator iOS (iPhone 14), and this exception been thrown out

[VERBOSE-2:dart_vm_initializer.cc(41)] Unhandled Exception: MissingPluginException(No implementation found for method checkAvailability on channel dev.yashgarg/appcheck)
#0      MethodChannel._invokeMethod
platform_channel.dart:313
<asynchronous suspension>
#1      AppCheck.checkAvailability
appcheck.dart:59
<asynchronous suspension>
#2      _AppCheckExampleState.getApps
app_checker.dart:52
<asynchronous suspension>

Allow doing unit tests in AppCheck.checkAvailability

Remove QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission

From 12.07.2022 apps from the PlayStore may be removed , which use the permission QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES without explanation.
Since I only want to check if a certain app is installed, I don't really need this permission.

If you know the packageName you can enter the following in the AndroidManifest.xml and it works without the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission.

<queries>
        <package android:name="com._._"/>
        <package android:name="com.google.android.apps.maps"/>
</queries>

If you want to check all installed apps, you have to add the permission QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES" />

But every user of this package should be responsible for the permissions himself.

Could you please check this?

#3

AppCheck.checkAvailability(package) not working. Throwing Unhandled Exception!

My Code (placed on button):

onTap: () async {
  const package =
      "org.codeclickers.universalconverter";
  if (Platform.isAndroid) {
    await AppCheck.checkAvailability(
            package)
        .then(
      (app) => debugPrint(app.toString()),
    );
  }
}

Here is the error thrown in terminal:

E/getAppPackageInfo (org.codeclickers.universalconverter)( 5580): org.codeclickers.universalconverter
E/flutter ( 5580): [ERROR:flutter/runtime/dart_vm_initializer.cc(41)] Unhandled Exception: PlatformException(400, App not found org.codeclickers.universalconverter, null, null)
E/flutter ( 5580): #0      StandardMethodCodec.decodeEnvelope
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:653
E/flutter ( 5580): #1      MethodChannel._invokeMethod
package:flutter/…/services/platform_channel.dart:296
E/flutter ( 5580): <asynchronous suspension>
E/flutter ( 5580): #2      AppCheck.checkAvailability
package:appcheck/appcheck.dart:46
E/flutter ( 5580): <asynchronous suspension>
E/flutter ( 5580): #3      _OtherTabState.build.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>
package:tools/tabs/other.dart:68
E/flutter ( 5580): <asynchronous suspension>
E/flutter ( 5580):