Application Manager

The application manager provides information about installed and running applications. It provides functions for obtaining the application name and absolute path to share files among all applications.

The application manager uses 2 types of application handles:

• app_context_h is related to the running applications.

  For more information on the functions that use the app_context_h handle, see the Application Context API (in mobile and wearable applications).

• app_info_h is related to the available applications (installed, but not necessarily running).

  For more information on the functions that use the app_info_h handle, see the Application Information API (in mobile and wearable applications).

Iterator functions are used to travel through a list of applications. The app_manager_foreach_app_context() function is used in running applications and the app_manager_foreach_app_info() function is used in available applications. Each function calls a callback function (app_manager_app_context_cb() or app_manager_app_info_cb()), passing the handle for each application.