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How to get name of any application from its resources in English locale?

I can get the name of the application using this code:

PackageInfo appInfo = pm.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
String      label   = appInfo.applicationInfo.loadLabel(pm).toString();

It gives names of application in default locale. But I need in English.

I also tried:

int    id    = context.getResources().getIdentifier("app_name","string",packageName);
String label = context.getString(id);

But id == 0 always

Now my question is: How to get the name of the application from resources res/values/strings.xml - app_name, knowing the name of the package?

Any ideas?

Solution

  • To get the names of installed apps:

    String appName = (String)pm.getApplicationLabel(appInfo);

    The reason that the app_name method is not working, is that this is a default, but is not always what is used.