Android: Determine category of installed apps
android
Solution
No, because apps don't have categories. Apps don't need to be installed through google play, the categories on other stores won't be the same. It may never have been installed from a store to begin with- I sideload apps all the time written by myself or friends. Th concept doesn't exist.
Not to mention Google Play categories are pretty bad- things frequently don't fall into one or the other, the descriptions are vague, and they're way too broad- they need at least 2 or 3 levels of subcategories to make them halfway usable.
Problem
Given the list of installed packages on an Android device, is there a way to sort the applications into categories without using a self-compiled hard-coded list of apps in categories? For example, if the installed apps were Phone, Angry Birds & Messages, Phone & Messages might be in Communications and Angry Birds in Games. I've seen How to get Category for each App on device on Android? yet hoped there may be a method that has come along since.