Android :: Open Activity From An Other Application Via Implicit Intent
Aug 20, 2010
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.
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Apr 18, 2012
I am trying to activate an activity from another activity using implicit intent.
Code fragment of mail activity:
Code:
public void onClick(View view) {
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
int id = view.getId();[code].....
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Mar 5, 2010
I am trying to launch an activity by specifying only its action(custom) defined in its intent filter from an activity in other application. The activity to be launched is the main activity of its application thus have android.intent.action.MAIN & android.intent.category.LAUNCHER set as action and category in its intent filter. Now according to android doc on Intent and Intent Filter, i do not need to specify DEFAULT category at all in this case. But doing the same i am i am unable to launch the activity.
LogCat says, Activity could not be found...
Am i misinterpreting the text or is there something else missing...?
Code, used for calling the activity
CODE:.............
Definition of Activity being called in the manifest file
COE:....................
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Sep 8, 2010
implicit intent with class name as action defined in intentfilter. is not working. Only it it is defined as "android.intent.action." it is picked up ? is it so ?
I have app A with the following in manifest.xml file
CODE:.............
In app B, i tried to call the activity in A using below code.
CODE:.............
This code works. But not above line.
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Mar 21, 2010
To understand the implicit intents by example.
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May 21, 2009
I`m trying to develop an application, just to test the ability of android to call an activity with an intent based not in the specific class name but specifying the action, category and data information. Acording to this link
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html
only three aspects are consulted when comparing an intent object to select the future activity to run. I created two android projects (and two activities), the first is the main project who sends the request and the second can be called directly or through the filter. This is the call of the activity in the main project:
CODE:..................
This is the part of the manifest that specifies (or at least I try to specify) in the secondary activity that it`s available to be selected to run with that information:
CODE:...............
I installed both separatelly and I was expecteing to see the second activity after the called but instead I got an ActivityNotFoundException. By the way if I comment the t3.addCategory (Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); line and change the t3.setAction (Intent.ACTION_EDIT); to t3.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); the browser is executed so I think the problem is in the manifest of the second activity.
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Sep 7, 2010
I couldnt figure out the exact understanding of implicit intents.
When i was going through the tutorial i read about it.
Here are some important points to remember: 1 - Implicit Intents do not specify a target component 2 - Components willing to receive implicit intents have to declare their ability to handle a specific intent by declaring intent filters 3 - A component can declare any number of Intent Filters 4 - There can be more than one component that declares the same Intent Filters and hence can respond to the same implicit intent. In that case the user is presented both the component options and he can choose which one he wants to continue with 5- You can set priorities for the intent filters to ensure the order of responses.
I read this about Implicit Intents.
I couldnt get visualisation of 4th point. So wanted to try it out by writing some examples.
I tested this like below. Wrote two apps.
I had written two activities in one app, CallingActivity & anotherActivity.
CODE:...........
One more app,which has two activities like below.
CODE:..................
I ran the first app in emulator and pressed home screen, it mean it runs in the background.(Not exited ) Then i opened the second app and clicked a button in frirst activity(testmain) and tried to call setAction "com.android.localguide.GET_RESULT"
i.setAction("com.android.localguide.GET_RESULT");
But it is opening the activity "results".. It dint showed a options to choose which components( i expected first app ) activity i need to use ?
Am i right in executing in the right context to understand that point no 4 ?
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Is it possible to call the built-in Video Recorder in Android through an implicit Intent? I did some search but haven't figured out yet.
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Jan 13, 2010
I'm trying from main Activity (MainFile.java) to open a Map as a new intent through a menu. Something like this...
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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I know how to update my own programs, and I know how to open programs using the a predefined Uri (for sms or email for example)
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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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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Apr 10, 2009
In my Android application, I have two activity classes. I have a button on the first one and I want to show the second when it is clicked, but I get an error.
Here are the classes:
CODE:...........
The second class that should show when the button is clicked, but never does:
CODE:........
How do I create a button that will show the second activity?
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Jun 10, 2010
I am interested in activating another application's activity. I know from reading the Android SDK that it's probably better to do this with an implicit intent. However, this activity doesn't reside in an application I own, so I don't know the action and category and data flags on the intent-filter.
How can I examine an Android applications metadata like the activity classes and the intent-filters for those activities (if declared in the manifest)?
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May 27, 2010
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 have an application that I have running a media player and I want to resume the activity from my applications home activity. I can successfully do this by adding the following flags to the startActivity Call:
myIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
I am worried that this is not an ideal way to do things since it took me a long time to find it. It made me think that no one uses it very much. Are there any pitfalls to using this method?
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Is there a way to exclude my own activity from the list of apps that is displayed to the user after the startActivity() call ?
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Forgive me if this is a topic that has already been discussed, but I've searched for hours and can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. I'm trying to cut my teeth on Android programming with a simple file manager app and currently have most all functions working, but I can't seem to open a selected file with the appropriate app.
Here is my current code:
CODE:..................
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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:.................
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What ive tried:
CODE:................
But it doestn even work with this flag... as soon as I click on a pic in the gallery, it closes and returns to my "Launcher". Is there any way to achieve what i want to do?
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The app may download files small files like pdfs and store them locally in a subdirectory. I would like to be able to have the user open these files if they have an app that can open them.
For example here is an intent for sending a pdf:
CODE:..............
path being something like: /data/data/packagename/files/subdir/example.pdf
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If the content provider is the only option, do I have to save the file to the content provider or can I just use the content provider as a pass through to get it to the other app when I need to?
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I tried this code:
CODE:..............
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