I know this has been asked a lot of times in StackOverflow already, but I haven't quite found a solution yet. My app sends an email with a link in it that when clicked should launch the app. According to @hackbod, the best way to do it is to make use of the Intent URI (see this). Here's my code that sets the intent and puts it in the email body: Code...
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Is there a way to launch a playlist whith intent? I can retrieve the path of the m3u playlist with: Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query (MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null); cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex (MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.DATA)); But, I can't launch this m3u file neither with Intent nor with MediaPlayer.
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I'm quite new to Android and Java development, so please explain it as basic as you can.
My app needs to show Google Maps directions from A to B, but I don't want to put the Google Maps into my application - instead, I want to launch it using an Intent. Is this possible? If yes, how?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWine by the Bar app (free in Android Market) is crashing on the HTC Magic.What intent settings/extras are needed to successfully launch ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE on HTC Magic?intent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);App works fine on G1.Also need proper intent for choosing an picture already on the phone, and a cropping intent.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFirst of all let me say that this questions is slightly connected to another question by me. Actually it was created because of that. I have the following code to write a bitmap downloaded from the net to a file in the sd card:
// Get image from url
URL u = new URL(url);
HttpGet httpRequest = new HttpGet(u.toURI());
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity);
InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent();
Bitmap bmImg = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(instream);
instream.close();
// Write image to a file in sd card
File posterFile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/Android/data/com.myapp/files/image.jpg");
posterFile.createNewFile();
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(posterFile));
Bitmap mutable = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bmImg,bmImg.getWidth(),bmImg.getHeight(),true);
mutable.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, out);
out.flush();
out.close();
// Launch default viewer for the file
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(posterFile.getAbsolutePath()),"image/*");
((Activity) getContext()).startActivity(intent);
A few notes. I am creating the "mutable" bitmap after seeing someone using it and it seems to work better than without it. And I am using the parse method on the Uri class and not the fromFile because in my code I am calling these in different places and when I am creating the intent I have a string path instead of a file. Now for my problem. The file gets created. The intent launches a dialog asking me to select a viewer. I have 3 viewers installed. The Astro image viewer, the default media gallery (I have a milstone on 2.1 but on the milestone the 2.1 update did not include the 3d gallery so it's the old one) and the 3d gallery from the nexus one (I found the apk in the wild). Now when I launch the 3 viewers the following happen:
Astro image viewer: The activity launches but I see nothing but a black screen.
Media Gallery: I get an exception dialog shown "The application MediaGallery (process com.motorola.gallery) has stoppedunexpectedly. Please try again" with a force close option.
3D gallery: Everything works as it should.
When I try to simply open the file using the Astro file manager (browse to it and simply click) I get the same option dialog but this time things are different:
Astro image viewer: Everything works as it should.
Media Gallery: Everything works as it should.
3D gallery: The activity launches but I see nothing but a black screen.
As you can see everything is a complete mess. I have no idea why this happens but it happens like this every single time. It's not a random bug. Am I missing something when I am creating the intent? Or when I am creating the image file? As noted in the comment here is the part of interest in adb logcat. Also I should note that I changed the way I create the image file. Since I want to create a file that reflects an online file I simply download it instead of creating a Bitmap and then creating the file (this was done because at some point I needed the Bitmap but now I do it the other way around). The problems persist thought and are exactly the same:
I/ActivityManager(18852): Starting
activity: Intent {
act=android.intent.action.VIEW
dat=/sdcard/Android/data/com.myapp/files/image.jpg
typ=image/* flg=0x3800000
cmp=com.motorola.gallery/.ViewImage }
I/ActivityManager(18852): Start proc
com.motorola.gallery:ViewImage for
activity
com.motorola.gallery/.ViewImage:
pid=29187 uid=10017 gids={3003, 1015}
I/dalvikvm(29187): Debugger thread not
active, ignoring DDM send
(t=0x41504e4d l=38)
I/dalvikvm(29187): Debugger thread not
active, ignoring DDM send
(t=0x41504e4d l=64)
I/ActivityManager(18852): Process
com.handcent.nextsms (pid 29174) has died.
I/ViewImage(29187): In View Image
onCreate!
D/AndroidRuntime(29187): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(29187): threadid=3: thread
exiting with uncaught exception
(group=0x4001b170)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): Uncaught
handler: thread main exiting due to
uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime(29187):
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to
start activity
ComponentInfo{com.motorola.gallery/com.motorola.gallery.ViewImage}:
java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native
Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
com.motorola.gallery.ImageManager.allImages(ImageManager.java:5621)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
com.motorola.gallery.ImageManager.getSingleImageListByUri(ImageManager.java:5515)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
com.motorola.gallery.ViewImage.onCreate(ViewImage.java:1801)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459)
E/AndroidRuntime(29187): ... 11 more
From the JavaDoc, the EXTRA_STREAM parameter when launching an intent needs to be an URI. How can I pass a Bitmap object which I get from launching a "android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE" intent? code...
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I have written an application which calls native methods through JNI. In the native library 4 threads are started. On USB removal, the application is to be closed including the native threads. Upon receiving the USB removal event, we are trying to kill the threads (pthread_kill() ) and then finish (using finish()) the activity. After reconnecting the USB, the application is not launching due to memory corruption. In DDMS, it shows the threads are still attached to bionic. As the threads are not closed, I feel the resources were not released properly. If I reconnect again then application launches and works fine and the same repeats on every launch.
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But I want the original A to come to the front. I want to make this change in the framework layer rather than application specific by using the singleInstance theme in the launchMode in AndroidManifest file.
I would like to know if I can launch a program via incoming MMS/SMS? More on the MMS side of things.
Workflow:
MMS sent to Android device
self executable MMS
Any thoughts?
I would like to write an application which would be launched from the Contacts list in the phone.That is,you choose a contact using the normal contacts application, and where you can dial to the contact, send an Email or SMS,you can also launch my application with this contact's activity.How can this be done?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedOn the market, there's an application called App Protector, which seems to effectively block the launching of configured activities until a password is correctly provided. By default, it blocks access to itself (not very interesting), Settings, and a few others. I wrote my own app to launch settings (rather than doing so through the home screen) and App Protector continued to do the job it claims to do.
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I want to launch my application in market. I ahd go to http://market.android.com/publish/signup but there they are asking for Website URL. But i don't have any website then what should I enter there? or is it necessary to have our own website to launch application in market?
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Is it possible to re-use all the instances of Activities and Services when an application is launched twice. For instance: 1/ I start my application APP1. Some activities are launched and a service is started. 2/ I click "Home" device button 3/ I can see the icon the launch again my application APP1 4/ I click on it and the APP1 is launched twice
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Is it possible to launch an app widget from another application.
For example, I have a button in an application. When I click on that button, an appwidget must be launched.
I would like to launch an app the user selects from within my application. However, I'm not sure how I'd go about doing this. I've tried this:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT);
startActivity(intent);
But this seems to throw an error and force close my application. I also tried adding:
<action android:name="Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT"/>
in the AndroidManifest file, but to no avail.
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I want to launch an application in the phone by clicking its link in the browser..
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to launch another application from my Activity. Something weird happens when I am running this code :
Intent myIntent = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null );
myIntent.addCategory( Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER );
myIntent.setFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED );
ComponentName compName=new ComponentName(myArray[i][0], myArray[i] [1] );
// String[][] myArray myIntent.setComponent( compName ); startActivity( myIntent );
I have this error :
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class { com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings};
Have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
But when I replace this line
// myArray[i][0] = "com.android.settings" // myArray[i][1] = "com.android.settings.Settings" ComponentName compName=new ComponentName(myArray[i][0], myArray[i] [1] );
with ComponentName compName=new ComponentName("com.android.settings","com.android.settings.Settings");
And without any modification in my manifest, it works!
I am implementing a simple app. I need to start an activity based on the state of the Activity. Lets take i am using a button to start the activity.
1. If the activity is not started, I need to start XYZ activity.
2. If the XYZ activity is on focus, then i need to close the activity on the button press.
3. If the XYZ activity is not in focus (like onPause) state then, I need to change the button state.Can you please help me in the flags that i need to use for starting the intent. Is it possible to get the state of activity before I start that activity?