I use this code to share text from my application:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, GetTxt());
intent.setType("text/plain");
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_SEND_MSG);
and it appear the activity where I can choose the application on which I want to share.
I noticed if I click on "Always open with..." I can't change it.
So how do I force the user to always select for application?
On api 29 "PackageManager.clearPackagePreferredActivities" is deprecated so what can I use?
You can try with an intent chooser like this:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, GetTxt());
intent.setType("text/plain");
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_SEND_MSG);
Intent openInChooser = Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share");
startActivityForResult(openInChooser, REQUEST_SEND_MSG);
It's generic, so you can share your text with what you want
Your app cannot clear the preferred activities from other apps that are set by the user as default activities. Up until API 28 you could use clearPackagePreferredActivities to unset the default activities if they belonged to your app, but now with API 29 this is deprecated.
This method was deprecated in API level 29.
This function no longer does anything. It is the platform's responsibility to assign preferred activities and this cannot be modified directly. To determine the activities resolved by the platform, use resolveActivity(Intent, int) or queryIntentActivities(Intent, int).
Instead, it's suggested your app queries for role availability with Role Manager.
To configure an app to be responsible for a particular role and to check current role holders, see RoleManager.
That said, there is also this answer with a hack method of achieving that, but I have no clue if it still works or not. Also, I imagine if it works, it would only work the first time.
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I tried this
private void postImage(Uri uri) {
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My bracelet image");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, "Action Bracelet");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,uri);
Intent chooser=Intent.createChooser(intent,"Share Image Using");
try{
context.startActivity(chooser);
}
catch(ActivityNotFoundException e){
Toast.makeText(context,"You don't have any share application installed",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Log.e("Image Load","failed");
}
}
Now my problem is i need the application name on which this image is shared .I also created my custom dialog for it but problem remains same . Because when i select an option for share like facebook and i pressed back button then image is not share and i only know that the user click on facebook.
so i need a callback which gives me result_ok and result_cancle and the application name too . Can anyone help me i am stuck here from last three days ...
Now my problem is i need the application name on which this image is shared
If your minSdkVersion is 22 or higher, use the createChooser() that takes an IntentSender as the third parameter, as that is your only means of finding out what the user chose.
If your minSdkVersion is below 22, you will have to create your own chooser-style UI, using PackageManager and queryIntentActivities() to find out what activities should be listed in that UI.
I also created my custom dialog for it but problem remains same
You certainly know what the user chose in the dialog. That is all you are going to get from the API Level 22 createChooser() either.
Because when i select an option for share like facebook and i pressed back button then image is not share and i only know that the user click on facebook.
Of course. The user can do whatever the user wants in that other application. The user does not have to press BACK; the user can simply fail to send anything. That is between the user and that application — information about whether the user did anything, who the user shared the information with, and so on, is not available to you.
I tried to start the Wikipedia App via Intent but I always get an InvocationTargetException, because the Activity can't be found. I can detect that Wikipedia is installed, but I can't start it. I know that I can also use the Intent Filter and call the Wikipedia URL, but then the user can decide between app and browser (both works different with the search param, which is not very useful) and I want to decide it for the user.
I tried it with following code:
final Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "searchString");
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.setPackage("org.wikipedia");
Can somebody tell me, what I am doing wrong there or is it just not possible to start the wikipedia app? :-/
Finally I come to a solution after I was looking in the wikipedia code on github (https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia). The app listens only for View Intents, which means that following code works:
final Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(searchUri);
intent.setPackage("org.wikipedia");
The problem here is, that only URI's for existing articles were handled and no search operation can be used. After watching a little bit more in the code, I found a PageActivity which also listens for ACTION_SEARCH Intents. This would work, when in the AndroidManifest.xml this Intent Filter would be also available.
Is there any intent or method to get the values which show in the usage statistics? We can get that manually by dialing secret code ##4636##
Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
in.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.UsageStats");
startActivity(in);
This will shows the UsageStatitics Activity. But i need to show in my application not in the default..
Thanks
There is a way, but it requires being a system app. Also, since it's very hack-y, it might not work on some devices. Anyway, here it is:
http://jhshi.me/2014/04/02/get-package-usage-statistics-in-android/
or:
http://www.phonesdevelopers.com/1816323/
I need to allow user to draw/sketch/paint something. There are already many apps(like Skitch, I will use this as an example) that accomplish this task. So I don't want to re-invent the wheel.
In Android, theoretically, we can launch other activity by intent. This is sort of like "pipe" in Unix.
The problem is, I don't know how to get the information for launching Skitch.
To integrate Skitch in my app, I need to know the Action it supports, the returning intent (if any) when it finishes.
I installed Skitch, photoshop, and lots of other touch drawing apps in my device, but this code doesn't work :
Uri data = Uri.fromFile(file);
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
i.setData(data);
i.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(i, ACTIVITY_DRAW);
I can launch Skitch from my app in the following way: but obviously I can't get any returned result this way(code from here).
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
PackageManager manager = getPackageManager();
i = manager.getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.evernote.skitch");
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
startActivity(i);
My question: Is there a standard way to find information for launching a third party app?
Is this site the only way to share/get such information?
Or if you have any suggestions for my problem, please help me.
Thank you!
As you might already know how to call another application Activity from your app ..this way Mentioned Here.
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_RUN);
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("<packet name>", "<class name>"));
List list = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(intent, packageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DEFAULT);
if(list.size() > 0)
{
Log.i("Log", "Have application" + list.size());
startActivity(intent);
}
else
{
Log.i("Log", "None application");
}
All your require is Mainly Two Things to call any Activity
1) Package Name of that Activity
2) Activity Class Name
These two informations only can be available if they are opensource or made free to use .. like Zxing,Google Maps Application.
There is another way to start an application activity like,
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + numberField.getText())); // set the Uri
startActivity(intent);
For this way to use need to know the correct Action for the Activity you want to call and the Correct parameter to pass with.
And again,These information only can be available if they are opensource or made free to use .. like Facebook and Gmail apps to share and post messages.
So If you are searching for anything like which can tell you what you will need to pass to call any specific comercial apps in your device, you wont find it directly.
It's an old question but perhaps it could help somebody to know that Sony's AppXplore application (free) shows the package and name of the activities of every app installed on your device, so you can eventually use them to do explicit Intents.
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.
A look at Logcat shows that it's an "IOexception - no such file or directory". A couple of questions arise from this. I read through the Android docs and noticed that the Contact.Intents class is deprecated. However, it's successor, ContactContracts is aimed at API level 5 whereas I'm targeting API level 3. Could this be the problem? Also, I've hardcoded this application into the code. Is there a way to retrieve the intents of any application the user selects so that they can be launched?
You need to pass extra information into the intent to tell Android what you want to show or create. Otherwise Android doesn't know what activity to start and (presumably in your case) throws an ActivityNotFoundException.
For a contact, you use the generic Intent.ACTION_INSERT_OR_EDIT then use the MIME type of an individual contact (Contacts.People.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE).
For example:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT_OR_EDIT);
intent.setType(People.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
intent.putExtra(Contacts.Intents.Insert.PHONE, "+1234567890");
intent.putExtra(Contacts.Intents.Insert.PHONE_TYPE, Contacts.PhonesColumns.TYPE_MOBILE);
That will bring up the contacts app, prompting you to select an existing contact to add the phone number to, or to create a new contact.
You don't need to add anything special to your manifest to start external activities. Only if you were to directly manipulate the contacts ContentProvider would you need to add the appropriate CONTACT permissions to your manifest.
I use this code for that purpose:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.Settings");
startActivity(intent);
This will launch the Settings app, you can use these also:
intent.setClassName("com.android.music", "com.android.music.MediaPlaybackActivityStarter");
intent.setClassName("com.android.contacts", "com.android.contacts.DialtactsContactsEntryActivity");
intent.setClassName("com.android.contacts", "com.android.contacts.DialtactsActivity");
The first starts the default music app, the second the contacts, and the third the dialer.
Hope this helps.
You need to pass in valid arguments to the apps you start. A lot of apps expect the data URI and / or certain extras to be valid.
Please try the following code:
Intent intent = new Intent(Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT);
this.startActivity(intent);
(sorry if there is something wrong on the syntax, I dont have android in this computer)
And remove the action from the manifest. that is not needed.
The action method is used for something else.
For more info, please look at the android site: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
Daniel
The activity you are calling should appear not only in the Manifest for its own package, but in the Manifest for the CALLING package, too.