The privacy implications of this are not cool. I’m not OK with every app knowing which apps I have installed. Or any app knowing that, frankly.

Why tf does android let apps see this sort of info? This absolutely should be sandboxed

Hide My Applist (root) should make it work.

Years ago a team I worked on came up with some ideas for how to use this ability in a music streaming service.

Just installed Tinder? Have a breakup playlist.

Just installed Airbnb? Have some travel playlists.

We didn’t do it because it was such an invasion of privacy.

But you are allowed to download malware from the AppStore, feel free to do it that way instead.