I understand how to use intents and startActivity() when opening another activity within my own app, but how do you start a different app? specifically:
- How do you determine if the user has the needed app installed on their device?
- How do you start that app?
- How do you pass parameters to that app?
- How do you find all this info out for a specific app (say Adobe reader, or google maps)?
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I was trying to open an Activity of an other applicatoin by using an implicit Intent. It doesn't work, I thought it is possible to start an Activity of an other Application by using implicit Intent. Or do I missunderstand it?
I added following intent-filter to the AndroidManifest of Application A:
CODE:..............
And called the Intent in Application B by using folloing code:
CODE:.............
All I get ist, the error message that Application A was stoped unexpectedly.
Im writing a program that offers a quick reply dialog upon receipt of an SMS.
However, I am getting an unexpected result. When I receieve an SMS, the appropriate dialog activity comes up displaying the correct phone number and message, however there is a second activity behind it that is the 'default' activity in my program (it is what opens when i launch my application)
I do not want this second activity to come up. The quick reply activity should come up by itself over top of whatever the user was doing before.
The 'floating' activity:
CODE:.........
The call to the activity inside an onReceive()
CODE:..............
The Manifest:
CODE:.................
I want to open other apk from my activity. is there any way similar to new Intent(...)?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm doing that sample: [URL] ....
I want to change at this line
public void onClick(View v) {layout.setVisibility(GONE);}
to
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent myIntentopen = new Intent(MainActivityold.class, MainActivitynew.class);
startActivity(myIntentopen);
}
but it dosn't work.
I have activities A and B. The A is the one with LAUNCHER intent-filter (i.e. the activity that is started when we click the app icon on home screen). A launches B using start Activity(new Intent(A.this, B.class)). When the user has the B activity open, and then put my application into the background, and later my application's process is killed, when the user starts my application again, B is opened instead of A. This caused a force close in my app, because A is the activity that initializes the resources my app needs, and when B tried to access the uninitialized resources, B crashes.
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CODE:..............
And I already have set up thing on my manifest.xml with access to...
CODE:........
It worked fine with other File.class, but with the Map.class doesn't seem to be working.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm doing that sample:
http:[url].....
I want to change at this line
public void onClick(View v) {layout.setVisibility(GONE);}
to
public void onClick(View v) {
Intent myIntentopen = new Intent(MainActivityold.class, MainActivitynew.class);
startActivity(myIntentopen);
}
but it dosn't work.
I have seen the below log message when navigating to the Account & sync settings screen but I am confused as to how to create an Intent to navigate there.I dont seem to have access to the ManageAccountsSettings for development.I just wanted to create an Intent such as below, but I cant call out ManageAccountsSettings.
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I need to know how I can create an Intent to open MyTracks or any other application that I don't know what intents they listen to.
I got this info from DDMS, but I havn't been succesful in turning this to an Intent I can use. This is taken from when opening MyTracks manually.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedFrom this article:
http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html#marketintent
Android Market could be invoked by an ACTION_VIEW intent with URL like
http://market.android.com/details?id=<packagename>
How does it work? Is the market.android.com return some info to browser to help it open the Android Market application? or just the browser locally does the trick? Is it possible to set up an open URL who could do the same thing? For example, I have an app called MyBooks(com.mybooks.app) and a site like:
http://www.mybooks.com
an url could be
http://www.myboos.com/details?id=0001
And when Browser opens this url, the site will return some kind of pre-defined response, which might contains an Intent action string, like "com.myboos.app.action.VIEW" and the queried id 0001.
Browser could then try to start an Activity using that action
"com.mybooks.app.action.View",
if there is an Activity for that, start it and pass the id in. If not, it tries to connect another URL like
http://www.myboos.com/details?id=0001&installed=false
Is this possible to work on any version of the Android?
I am wondering if it is possible to intercept an open application call, for any (most of the) installed application. Or at least for opening the Activity having the intent-filter's action set to Main (if it exists for an app).
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