Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote

>> MuntashirAkon isn't on the Google Play Store.
>
> I use "Package Name Viewer 2.0"
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.csdroid.pkg>

Thanks for that suggestion - which I also have for viewing package names.

All my tools are free, ad free & most are gsf free and tracker free.
(Yes, it takes intelligence and good search engines to find them.)

I've tested every free package manager ever suggested in this ng.

When I last extensively tested all the purported "Package Managers",
each one gave _different_ results (which is sometimes surprising),
where one of the most important is to show the name non truncated.

I just ran a rough search on my system for package managers, inspectors &
viewers which found the following (although there may be others installed).

a. <io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager> version 3.0.4 (416)
No trackers.
<https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager>
<https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager/>
b. <com.csdroid.pkg> version 3.2.0 (38)
Has one tracker [com.android.billingclient.api.ProxyBillingActivity].
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.csdroid.pkg>
c. <cz.seeq.prog.android.packageviewer> version 1.7.2 (11)
No trackers.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seeq.prog.android.packageviewer>
d. <twoxmars.packagenameviewer> version 3.4.1 (7)
No trackers.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=twoxmars.packagenameviewer>
e. <com.google.android.packageinstaller> version 13-8768315 (33)
No trackers
f. <com.codex.appinspector> version 3.1.33 (33)
4 trackers & Play App Signing
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codex.appinspector>
g. <com.ubqsoft.sec01> version 1.29.6-201910301402 (49)
No trackers.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubqsoft.sec01>
and maybe a few more... if they don't have the keyword in the name.

However... most package managers only do mainly one thing.
Muntashirakon App Manager does so many things, I can't count them.

Look at these screenshots which helped me find bugs in Aurora Store
(which the Aurora developers kindly fixed at my request on XDA).
a. <https://i.postimg.cc/FzD9Lcbf/afp07.jpg>
b. <https://i.postimg.cc/W3xmPFqk/afp08.jpg>
c. <https://i.postimg.cc/FFfGnmkS/afp15.jpg>

Intercepting and subsequently editing and then reapplying intents is
just one of the very many extremely useful tasks MuntashirAkon does
that a typical "package manager" doesn't come close to being able to do.

It's really an all-purpose utility more so than an App Manager, per se.

There is really no comparison - Muntashirakon is likely one of the top five
best apps ever written for Android, with the other four being, oh, maybe.
1. NewPipe
2. Aurora Store
3. Skyica App Finder
4. NetGuard (you turned me on to this one... thanks!)
5. MuntashirAkon App Manager

It's telling that not a single one of those is allowed in the Google Play
Store repository - which is one reason why sideloading is so fantastic.
--
Yes. I'm aware that a less-functional NetGuard is in the Google repo.