How to get name of installed or removed application?

Question

I have written a broadcast receiver to detect installing and removing applications. But I want to get the name of installed or removed application too. How can I do that?

This is my BroadcastReceiver:

public class PackageReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        switch(intent.getAction())
        {
            case Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED:
                String replaced = "";
                if(intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REPLACING, false))
                {
                    replaced = "replaced";
                }
                Log.e("application", "installed " + replaced);

                break;

            case Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED:
                if(!intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REPLACING, false))
                {
                    Log.e("application", "removed");
                }

                break;
        }

    }
}

In the manifest:

<receiver
    android:name=".receivers.PackageReceiver"
    android:enabled="true"
    android:exported="true">
    <intent-filter>
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" />
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED" />
         <data android:scheme="package" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Answer 1

Combining info found in android documentation and this answer on stack overflow I came up with the following. Intents you are using might have EXTRA_UID extra which contains uid of modified app. With uid you can get the app name. However you can only do that on ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED intent, because in ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED app was already remove and you cant get its name (you can still get uid).

Check this sample:

int uid = intent.getIntegerExtra(Intent.EXTRA_UID);
String appName = context.getPackageManager().getNameForUid(uid);

So in your case it would be:

public class PackageReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        switch(intent.getAction())
        {
            case Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED:
                String replaced = "";
                String appName = "";
                int uid = -1;
                if(intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REPLACING, false))
                {
                    replaced = "replaced";
                }
                uid = intent.getIntExtra(Intent.EXTRA_UID, -1);
                if(uid != -1){
                    appName = context.getPackageManager().getNameForUid(uid);
                }
                Log.e("application", "installed " + replaced + " uid " + uid + " appname " + appName);

                break;

            case Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED:
                if(!intent.getBooleanExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REPLACING, false))
                {
                    Log.e("application", "removed");
                }
                break;
        }
    }
}

With this code I've seen this written in logcat after installing Google Earth from Google Play:

installed uid 10404 appname com.google.earth