Can't tell if on purpose or broken by mistaken (no documentation updates, so maybe broken?)
ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED cannot be received unless app is a Process.SYSTEM_UID developer.android.com/reference/andr
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Probably meant to be a privacy related change? No more ad networks or apps snooping on package adds?
Though, no bueno that this isn't documented or shared anywhere I can find :\
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The QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission provides access to most (all?) of the past functionality. Not sure about this case though.
developer.android.com/about/versions
If you don't have that permission, you can only see apps that you've marked as being available to the app.
For apps targeting API 30+, they're only supposed to be able to see apps in their whitelist unless they request QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES. A lot of changes were made to support this. For now, anyone can use QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES and it's not user-facing yet. It will likely get locked down.
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It just doesn't make much sense for them to start heavily locking it down when apps can simply drag their heels and avoid adopting API 30+ until it becomes mandatory on the Play Store at the end of next year. This way, at least app manifests will have a list of apps or that perm.
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