Hi,<div><br></div><div><div>Can anyone think of a workaround for deleting a built-in app in Android? </div><div><br></div></div><div><div>All the apps in our builds get the status of &quot;built-in&quot; as opposed to &quot;downloaded&quot;. This makes them impossible to uninstall.</div>
<div>If we want to debug one of our apps with DS-5 CE, we must allow it to be uploaded and installed by DS-5. That&#39;s how this tool works.</div><div>You can&#39;t install the same app twice and you can&#39;t delete a built-in app. So we need to remove the app to be debugged from the build which is inconvenient.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>You may have to mount /system/app writeable (which I think is OK for a developer edition like Linaro Android, it could be a build option?) and muck around in the database yourself since neither adb uninstall or the Settings app is keen on removing a built-in app. Can it be done?</div>
<div><br></div><div>/Tony</div>