Android application ID (package name)

ID android_package_name

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Identifier of an Android app on the device and in Google Play, set by applicationId in the Gradle build and stored as the package attribute of the merged AndroidManifest.xml; Android APIs such as Context.getPackageName() call it the package name. It looks like a Java package name in reverse-domain order. Android requires at least two segments separated by dots, each segment starting with a letter, and only the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscore. Google Play treats an upload with a different application ID as a different app. VirusTotal reports it as the androguard Package of an APK. The format also matches many domain names and Java class names, so use the field name or context.

Categories: Software development
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Wikidata: P3418
Quality: 85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*(?:\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
com.example.myapp	Example application ID in the Android developer documentation
ru.oneme.app	Package name of an APK in its VirusTotal report
myapp invalid	Only one segment
com.example.2app invalid	Segment starts with a digit
com.example.my-app invalid	Hyphen is not allowed

Sources

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