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Devices(s): N70, N95 8gb

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Platform(s): S60 2nd edition, 3rd Edition

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Keywords: applist

Created: User:Kandyfloss (16 May 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (08 May 2013)

Overview

This code snippets helps us to list all the installed applications on a Mobile Device using Python

The extension that offers this functionality is applist.

Applist is a S60 python extension module for getting list of applications info.

The applist function returns a list of tuples (Uid, caption, fullName). Uid is an integer.

Code

The code below is used to list applications

import applist
 
apps = applist.applist()
 
print apps

The following snippet can be used to list all the captions of installed applocations:

import applist
a = applist.applist()
for i in a:
   print i[1]

Postconditions

In the second code snippet, the caption of all the installed applications will be printed on the Python shell and this information can be used effectively in applications.