Detective Droid

michaelcarrano

About this app

Have you ever wondered, "how is this app made?", wonder no more!

Detective Droid is here to help you detect which libraries are used inside applications that are installed on your device.

This makes it really easy to see what companies and developers are using to develop their applications.

Detective Droid requires no permissions and works on Android API 21 (Android 5.0 Lollipop) and newer.

- Andriod 11: Changes in Android 11 require a permission in order to get the list of apps installed on the user's device. You can read more about this change: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/package-visibility

Detective Droid is available on Github:
https://github.com/michaelcarrano/detective-droid

Ratings and reviews

Application does not work on my Nexus 5X. Detective Droid crashes immediately after analysing all installed apps. Moreover I would welcome an option of selection which apps should be analysed, I don't want to wait 10 minutes for the process to end to analyze all apps, if I want to check just a single one...

All apps should be made like this. The task at hand, presented nicely in that good 'ol Android display. No hidden features or useless bells and whistles. Quite refreshing, tbh, knowing there's still developers/coders that work in this fashion.

It does not show me anything about what are being used by companies to build their own apps. Shows nothing usefull like, what technologies have been used, etc. You will know what I am saying when you try it with your own App.

What’s new

General improvements such as detecting additional libraries.