How can I search applicationinfo by permissions?

Question

I want to show the list of applications installed on user device which have the internet permission on their manifest file currently I am getting all of them by using this code:

PackageManager packageManager = mainActivity.getPackageManager();
            apps = packageManager.getInstalledApplications(0);
            Collections.sort(apps, new ApplicationInfo.DisplayNameComparator(packageManager));

Answer 1

Instead of getInstalledApplications(), use getInstalledPackages(), including GET_PERMISSIONS in the flags. The resulting PackageInfo objects will have a permissions field filled in, for those packages that request permissions. permissions will be a PermissionInfo[], and PermissionInfo has a name field you can check to see if it matches your desired permission. Something like this should work:

for (PackageInfo pkg : mgr.getInstalledPackages(PackageManager.GET_PERMISSIONS)) {
  for (PermissionInfo perm : pkg.permissions) { 
    if (Manifest.permission.INTERNET.equals(perm.name)) {
      // do something
    }
  }
}