Ionic Capacitor App Availability not working on android

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Hey, the issue with my code is that it doesn’t detect the application that is being installed on the android, it always returns false.
I am following the official documentation from here (App Availability - Cordova Plugin for iOS and Android Devices)
Here is my code:

import { AppAvailability } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/app-availability/ngx';
import { Platform } from 'ionic-angular';

app:any;

constructor(
    private appAvailability: AppAvailability, 
    private platform: Platform
) { 
  this.app = 'com.twitter.android';
  this.platform.ready().then(() => {
  this.appAvailability.check(this.app)
  .then(
    (yes: boolean) => console.log(this.app + ' is available'),
    (no: boolean) => console.log(this.app + ' is NOT available')
  );
}
}

And the output is always:
com.twitter.android is NOT available
Kindly suggest me what is wrong in this? Thankyou

2

The plugin has not been updated since 2019, so it’s missing important information.
The @capacitor/app-launcher plugin, which is similar to that plugin, has this note about Android 11:

Note: On Android 11 and newer you have to add the app package names you want to query in the AndroidManifest.xml inside the queries tag.

Example:

<queries>
    <package android:name="com.getcapacitor.myapp" />
</queries>

You need to add a new <package android:name="xxx.yyy.zzz" /> for every package you want to query.

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