Is there a way of recieving a notification of some sort when a activity is launched. I'd like to monitor which applications are used and how often. Is is possible to register for some broadcast telling me when an application is launched, installed, unistalled etc? I believe I found a discussion or solution to this yesterday when I was looking for something else, but I'm not able to find it today.
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I need to execute some operation when the specific application is launched, it is possible to get notification when an application is to be launched, or after it is launched?
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Is there a way to determine which activities can be launched via startActivity?
For example, the Documents To Go app has different activities that will start Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, etc... I am able to launch all o these just fine.
However, it also contains some activities that I am not able to launch with startActivity... If I attempt to do this I get a SecurityException.
I want to be able to determine which activities I can safely launch and which I cannot so I only present the user with a list of activities that I can safely launch from within my application...
Like the title says, I need to detect when my app loses focus because another app is launched (Phone call comes in, or user hits Home etc.).
Overriding Activity.OnStop does not work because that is called even when switching activities within my app.
I am just starting on an Android app and I am puzzled about why my Task activity stack is being reset any time the application is launched from the Home screen. I used the ADT tools to create the application in Eclipse. The main activity is ".UserLaunch" and it starts the activity ".About" when the user presses a button. If the user then presses HOME and then relaunches the app, .UserLaunch is displayed and is the only thing on the stack.
.UserLaunch has the launchMode singleTask. .About is standard. According to the documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#lmodes: "However, a "singleTask" activity may or may not have other activities above it in the stack. If it does, it is not in position to handle the intent, and the intent is dropped. (Even though the intent is dropped, its arrival would have caused the task to come to the foreground, where it would remain.) "The Task stack should be brought to the foreground and .About should still be displayed. I added Logging to all of the lifecycle events (edited to remove timestamps and shorten DEBUG/ and INFO/ to D/ and I/) and you can see that when HOME is pressed, .About cycles through onPause and onStop (as expected). Then when the app is again launched, .About is destroyed and .UserLaunch is restarted D/UserLaunch:(670): onCreate() D/UserLaunch:(670): onStart() D/UserLaunch:(670): onResume() I/ActivityManager(52): Displayed activity com.cequint.cityid/.UserLaunch: 4910 ms I/ActivityManager(52): Starting activity: Intent { comp= {com.cequint.cityid/com.cequint.cityid.About} } D/UserLaunch:(670): onPause() D/About(670): onCreate() D/About(670): onStart() D/About(670): onResume() I/ActivityManager(52): Displayed activity com.cequint.cityid/.About: 1031 ms D/UserLaunch:(670): onStop() I/ActivityManager(52): Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN categories= {android.intent.category.HOME} flags=0x10200000 comp= {com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher.Launcher} } D/About(670): onPause() D/About(670): onStop() D/dalvikvm(670): GC freed 413 objects / 34128 bytes in 72ms I/ActivityManager(52): Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN categories= {android.intent.category.LAUNCHER} flags=0x10200000 comp= {com.cequint.cityid/com.cequint.cityid.UserLaunch} } D/About(670): onDestroy() D/UserLaunch:(670): onRestart() D/UserLaunch:(670): onStart() D/UserLaunch:(670): onResume() Here is the relevant section of the Manifest: <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/ app_name"> <activity android:name=".UserLaunch" android:label="@string/app_name" android:launchMode="singleTask" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <activity android:name=".About" android:launchMode="standard"> </activity> </application> Anyone have any ideas why this is always resetting the Activity Stack?
Is there anyway to go back to a previously launched Activity while running an Instrumentation test? Currently, when I use sendKeyDownUpSync( KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK);, this forces my test to exit, rather than go back to the previous Activity.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an application that launch a thread when a ToggleButton is pressed, but if I press the home button, a new activity is started (I can return to the first activity if I press the back button), but I want to recovery the first activity launched state, which have the reference of the initial thread.
This is my code:
org.test.test.java:
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package org.test;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.ToggleButton;
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Various parts of the Android system or Android apps are designed to launch a program, but aren't capable of launching an application shortcut. For example, they're willing to run a timer application, but they aren't willing to run its "start timer now" shortcut. One example is the samsung ICS lock screen, which is neat in other respects but suffers from this really lame limitation.
Is there an app that can be configured to run another app's shortcut? For example, I could configure the lock screen to launch "Fast Shortcut Helper", and fast shortcut helper will have already been configured to run the "start timer now" shortcut.
I'm struggling with my app that launches multiple instances of the same Activity using the same intent. My main activity is of class type A and it does a startActivity() of two children that are of the same class type B. So we have B1 and B2 launched. If B1 and B2 are both paused (by pushing back button and making sure finish() is not invoked on them so they are truly paused), how can A uniquely bring either B1 or B2 to the foreground again? I do want to launch a new B activity. I want to uniquely bring B1 or B2 to the foreground.
so both B1 and B2 were created like this... Intent intent = new Intent(context, B.class); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); startActivity(intent);
Now I want A to bring B1 (or B2) to the foreground/front so I use the below code, but how do I distinguish B1 or B2 when starting the activity? This only brings the last instance of B that was on top to the foreground.
Intent intent = new Intent(context, B.class); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT); startActivity(intent);
I've tried keeping around references to B1 and B2 and doing something like this, but this also only goes to the last instance of activity class B that was on top...
Intent intent = new Intent(B1context, B.class); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT); B1context.startActivity(intent);
I even tried this, but it still doesnt get me my unique B1 or B2... Intent intent = B1.getIntent(); // i.e. the original intent that started me startActivity(intent); // still only brings to front the last B that was on top.
I have a notification in the status bar for my app.The problem with this is that when you press the home button from the app (pushing it to the background) then press on the notification in the list accessed from the status bar, it starts a fresh copy of the activity. All I want to do is resume the app (like when you longpress the home button and press on the app's icon). Is there a way of creating an Intent to do this?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen MountService received event from HAL and start a notification, it would display an AlertActivity after user's click. However, I found the AlertActivity is created and can't be displayed.
I got some log as below:
CODE:........
Is it related to "FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK"? however, how to solve it?
I've tried to use "launchmode as singleTask", but is doesn't work.
Is there anyone give me a hand? Why my activity can be created but can't be displayed?
Can use notification to goto other activity?? eg: from a to b use c.
my a.java code is:
CODE:........
But it dosen't work?
In my app, I'm creating a notification with the FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT flag set.I'm cancelling the notification in onDestroy, but if my app crashes before calling onDestroy, is there any way to have my notification go away?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to start an activity from the notification bar but it needs to get an int. From activity to activity I would just put an int into the intent but I can't seem to figure out where to add the extra for the notification bar? Is this possible? If not is there a better way to do it?public void notifyMe()Code...
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//Sending mail final int SENT_MAIL = 1;
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail"),SENT_MAIL);
and in
onActivityResult(int req, int res,Intent data)
I am trying to find the result of email sending, so as to confirm if my mail was sent or was discarded by the user. I am receiving null for Intent data.
i.e. data =null
parameter in onActivityResult(int req, int res, Intent data), res is always 0.
ie. res = 0;
I'm trying to pass data from notification to activity.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am creating like timer application and when I start timer I have option to go to android Home or start any other activity .When I start timer I set a notification bar icon and if i use some other application (mean go from started timer activity) and now I need to go to back to my previously started timer activity by clicking on notification icon?When I click I am starting a new instance timer activity , not the previously started timer activity and if I then click back button it show me a previously timer activity .Question is: How to call previously started activity trough notification bar , not to start new instance of that activity?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a server socket bound to a port and I want to send notifications using NotificationManager when a client connects. This all works well.
What I want to avoid is sending notifications if a specific activity is currently being used by the user. E.g., I'm trying to avoid something like GMail notification if I'm already reading email.
How can I resume my activity when a notification in the statusbar is clicked?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI m a newbie to android development and i wanna know a right way to get notification as an activity instead of statusbar notification.
To be clear, i wanna display an notification on screen instead of adding it to status bar.
I want to call the activity when user pull down the notification and click on that notification...how can i do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedApplication (non-wanted) behavior - application is started, some text is put into text-box and notification is created through button action. user "clicks" the home button, application is "minimized", notification is available in bar user selects the notification and the application is "maximized"
BUT - instead of the original instance, new instance is started (e.g. in the newest instance is missing the original text; when the latest instance is closed there is still the original instance with original text ) .
The code of the notification method
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I have also in the manifest xml file following tag android:launchMode="singleTask"
But it is still the same...The main problem is double/triple initialization of the application, i know that there are other means to preserve the values in resumed applications. Also it is needed that the applications stays running in background as the main functionality is the streaming of internet radio.
What is missing in the code ? What kind of information from my side is missing for to troubleshoot the issue ?
I create an application which displays the notification when the service starts. If an user navigates to HOME screen (without exiting the application), the user could still go back to the previous application by pressing on the notification icon. This is very similar case as the track recording service in Google application "My Track".
I want the existing activity as Single Top activity since it has associated service running. However when my application tries to bring the existing activity to front via notification, the existing activity's onDestroy has been called which causes problem. How can I skip this onDestroy method? Here is my current codes:
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I have one Android application, when it runs a service, I want to show the notification on the status bar. Then the user could navigate to other application by pressing HOME key. However when I try to bring the previous running application back to Front via notification icon, there is some problem with the existing activity. Even I declare it as "Single Top" mode (I want to run the existing activity since there is an associated service running) , somehow that activity's OnDestroy has been called before OnResume. Here is my code of creating the notification object.
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Is there any way for an activity to register for being notified if a wait/force close dialog is shown or alternatively if the user selects force close, a way to detect that in ondestroy()?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been having a problem with a notification not opening/going to the correct activity when it has been clicked. My notification code (located in a class which extends Service):
Context context = getApplicationContext();
CharSequence contentTitle = "Notification";
CharSequence contentText = "New Notification";
final Notification notifyDetails = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "Consider yourself notified", System.currentTimeMillis());
Intent notifyIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
PendingIntent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0,notifyIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL);
notifyDetails.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText, intent);
((NotificationManager)getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE)).notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, notifyDetails);
If I click the notification while the application which created the service is open, the notification disappears (due to the FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL) but the activity does not switch. If I click the notification from the home screen, the notification disappears and my app is brought to the front, however it remains on the activity which was open before going to the home screen, instead of going to the main screen. How do I specify the activity that will be pulled up?