Installed Apps Plugin

This is a Flutter plugin project named installed_apps_plugin. It is designed to provide functionality related to installed applications on a device.

Features

• Fetches a list of installed applications on linux.
• Run selected app.

Getting Started

To use this plugin, add installed_apps_plugin as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

dependencies:
  installed_apps_plugin: ^0.0.2

Usage

Import installed_apps_plugin in your Dart file:

import 'package:installed_apps_plugin/data/installed_app.dart';
import 'package:installed_apps_plugin/installed_apps_plugin.dart';

and use the async getInstalledApps method whenever you want:

final _installedAppsPlugin = InstalledAppsPlugin();
List<InstalledApp> apps = await _installedAppsPlugin.getInstalledApps();

// to run the app just call the launch() from InstalledApp
apps[0].launch()

You can then use the plugin's methods to fetch installed apps and platform version.

Platform Support

This plugin has support for Linux platform. It uses gio gtk c++ binding to get installed apps.

Testing

The plugin includes unit tests for the C portion of the plugin's implementation. These tests can be run from the command line once the plugin's example app has been built.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines before getting started.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

For any issues or suggestions, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

More Information

For more information, please refer to the example provided in this repository.