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Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

rbrunner — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:55:05 +0200

Maybe the poster gave up already waiting for an answer, but anyway, seeing another post I just realised that of course there is an official and documented way to list all available applications (built-in and installed i.e. third-party):

The RApaLsSession class does the trick...

Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

sandeepmhptr — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:46:36 +0200

Nice man,
felt nice to hear from you again......

Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

rbrunner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:58:51 +0200

... and, just thinking about it a little more, maybe all will be lost on 3rd edition phones because you don't get any direct access to such system files.

Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

rbrunner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:50:42 +0200

I don't know of any *official* way to query the installed programs, documented in the SDK.

But there seems to be - at least under UIQ - a file C:\System\Data\Apparc.db, where the system stores all the installed programs. See e.g. here, under chapter 3 "Lost Apps":
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/tipsp800.htm

Maybe it would be possible with a reasonble effort to reverse-engineer the structure of this file and used the information contained in it. But you would probably be pretty much on your own doing so...

Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

sandeepmhptr — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:23:03 +0200

ok,

How to find the 3rd party s/w s running on the phone?
is there any way?

Re: Discussion-------Third party S/w?

N_A — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:44:56 +0200

With "3rd party software" one generally refers to "somebody else's software".

In other words, any applications that are not your own (which come some from other ISV, Indepdendent Software Developer), is "3rd party".

If you take a device manufacturer, like Nokia, then the 3rd party software would be any software that was not developed by Nokia or Symbian, who'd represent the 1st party and you, yourself, would be the 2nd party, I guess.

3rd party software is installed just as you install any other software/applications:
- preinstalled by the manufacturer
- installed by the phone user

Discussion-------Third party S/w?

sandeepmhptr — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:21:43 +0200

Hi, friends-->
Just eager to know

What is a third party S/w?
How it is installed?
How to find programmatically what 3rd party s/w are running?