android - Get Application Name/ Label via ADB Shell or Terminal

Question

I'm developing an application that uses ADB Shell to interface with android devices, and I need some way of printing out the application name or label of an application, given maybe their package name.

In short, I need a way of getting app names (i.e. "Angry Birds v1.0.0") for user installed applications through adb shell.

Any light on the matter? Any help is appreciated on this.

Answer 1

adb shell pm list packages will give you a list of all installed package names.

You can then use dumpsys | grep -A18 "Package [my.package]" to grab the package information such as version identifiers etc