app_list_apps

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List the apps installed on the device, with their id, version and whether they came with the platform. By default only apps someone installed, which is nearly always the question — a stock Android emulator ships about 240 system packages.

Read-only: readOnlyHint is true.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	What it is
device	string		Device serial to target, e.g. "emulator-5554". Omit when only one device is running.
driver	string: uiautomator2, uiautomator, wda		Driver to use: "uiautomator2" (default for Android; fast, installs a server APK on first use), "uiautomator" (Android, installs nothing, slower, cannot type), or "wda" (WebDriverAgent: iOS simulators and iPhones).
system	boolean		Include the platform's own apps as well.

Examples

Each is the arguments of a tools/call request; the first is shown whole.

List the apps you installed

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "app_list_apps",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}

On an Android 15 emulator the answer's text was:

com.nextcloud.client  (340010190)
com.google.android.calculator  (85022643)
io.appium.uiautomator2.server.test  (0)
org.wikipedia  (50606)
com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard  (81)
io.appium.uiautomator2.server  (278)
dev.mobium.mobiumapp  (1)
org.fdroid.fdroid  (1023052)
com.beemdevelopment.aegis  (82)