I am trying to test my activity which has a button to go to a People application with ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. But the problem is People application starts edit activity in another task, and clearly I don't have access there. So, what to do? How to send signals to People application?
My intent is:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT);
intent.setType(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_TYPE);
intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.NAME, "");
intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE, "");
Well, I figured it out, pretty sure other developers will find it useful.
First of all, to enable testing interaction with People application you can prefill the contact data with related Intent fields:
public static void addAsContactConfirmed(final Context context, final Person person) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT);
intent.setType(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_TYPE);
intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.NAME, person.name);
intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.PHONE, person.mobile);
intent.putExtra(ContactsContract.Intents.Insert.EMAIL, person.email);
intent.putExtra("finishActivityOnSaveCompleted", true); // this line enables instant return People to our app
context.startActivity(intent);
}
Then you need to press back button, and this is the tricky part:
You can't just finish(), because it is not your activity, and even not the same task
You can't access any views of People app by the same reason
You cry a lot, because you don't know, what to do
But here I am with the solution. You need to use UiAutomation which can be obtained from instrumentation by calling final UiAutomation uiAutomation = getInstrumentation().getUiAutomation();.
Then you can't send any key events to another application, because it requires INJECT_EVENTS permission, which needs system signature, which your application apparently lacks :)
So, call this one:
uiAutomation.performGlobalAction(AccessibilityService.GLOBAL_ACTION_BACK);
It does not require any permissions and just work across application. Be sure you run your test above Android 4.3.
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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 am able to create an Activity that uses the DevicePolicyManager API's.
The tutorials show that I need use it the following fashion:
if (!mDPM.isAdminActive(mAdminName)) {
Intent intent = new Intent(DevicePolicyManager.ACTION_ADD_DEVICE_ADMIN);
intent.putExtra(DevicePolicyManager.EXTRA_DEVICE_ADMIN, mAdminName);
intent.putExtra("wipe-data", DeviceAdminInfo.USES_POLICY_WIPE_DATA);
startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_ENABLE);
}
else {
mDPM.wipeData(0);
}
However I would like this to run inside a Service.
But I cant call
startActivityForResult
from within a Service.
So what would be the best approach or strategy for me to try ?
The only reason you need to call startActivityForResult() is if your app is not presently configured as a device administrator, to lead the user to go set that up for you. Hence, put that portion of your logic inside of your user interface.
Your service itself would just skip doing anything if isAdminActive() returns false.
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.
My boss asked me to prove that my application behaves properly when summoned by another application (dunno why he asked that).
So I have two apps here, one launches a second one. How I launch the specific app I want? Using Intent launch seemly any generic app that reaches a certain goal, not the app I really want.
Give this a try.
Intent secondIntent = new Intent();
secondIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
secondIntent.setClassName("com.example", "com.example.YourSecondApp");
startActivity(secondIntent);
I should point out that com.example should be the package of your second application (the one you want to call) and com.example.YourSecondapp is the class name where you have your onCreate() method.
Intent secondApp = new Intent("com.test.SecondApp");
startActivity(secondApp);
Check out for more examples
http://developer.android.com/resources/faq/commontasks.html#opennewscreen
Create one Intent using the following code
Explicit Intent
When you know the particular component(activity/service) to be loaded
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClass("className/package name");
start<Activity/Service>(intent);
Imlicit Intent
When we do not have the idea which class to load and we know the Action to be perform by the launched application we can go with this intent.
Action needs to set, and the Android run time fallows the intent Resolution technique and list out(one or more components) the components to perform the action. from the list out components (if more than one), user will get the chance to launch his chosen application
I'm working on an app and I want to integrate the Last.fm app into it. Basically, when someone is looking at an artist in my app, I would like to have a button that they can tap to open up Last.fm application with the artist's information.
This intent works, but it loads a menu asking which app I would like to use (Browser or Last.fm):
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setData(Uri.parse("http://last.fm/music/" + headliner));
i.setAction("android.intent.action.VIEW");
startActivity(i);
However, I just want to start the Last.fm app and skip the dialog asking which app to use, I thought maybe using the setPackage() method would work like this:
i.setPackage("fm.last.android");
But it causes the app to crash:
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://last.fm/music/Rihanna pkg=fm.last.android }
Is it possible to just start the Last.fm app? Here's a copy of Last.fm's AndroidManifest.xml for reference.
Thanks for reading,
Tony
Yes, it's possible but you need to know the correct component name. Launch the last.fm app regularly and check the logfile for the cmp=... information that's been used when the app is started. Use this as well in your app then.
I start the Z-DeviceTest app from the market from within my app without a problem like this:
final Intent intentDeviceTest = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
intentDeviceTest.setComponent(new ComponentName("zausan.zdevicetest","zausan.zdevicetest.zdevicetest"));
startActivity(intentDeviceTest);
in my case the info I took from the logcat was:
// dat=content://applications/applications/zausan.zdevicetest/zausan.zdevicetest.zdevicetest
// cmp=zausan.zdevicetest/.zdevicetest
in order to know how to start the app with the right component/class... do the same for the last.fm app
Edit:
I've tested to launch Last.fm from my own app, and this works fine without any errors:
final Intent intentDeviceTest = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
intentDeviceTest.setComponent(new ComponentName("fm.last.android","fm.last.android.LastFm"));
startActivity(intentDeviceTest);