There is an application. It allows users to watch a lot of videofiles from one web media resource. I know that it is possible to force a result for an activity like in the following example:
Intent intent = new Intent();
setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
finish();
But it is in case of Activity class inheritance. Is there any possibility to force RESULT_OK (for example) in the following case:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(mp4url), "video/mp4");
startActivityForResult(intent, VIDEO_PLAYBACK_FINISHED);
where mp4url is a String variable, VIDEO_PLAYBACK_FINISHED is an int variable (a keyword for request).
As you can see there is no Activity class to work with. Everithing depends on a Video player users working with.
No, sorry that is not possible, since you are using the device's default media player.
A related question explains that embedding of media players in your app is also not possible.
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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.
I have an application which opens different videos using Intent chooser. So you can imagine user clicks on the list item which contains many elements with name of the video.
Now, the thing is working fine with this,
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(uriPath, "video/mp4");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
but when the user again clicks on the same item, the intent chooser is shown. Selecting any video player in the device resumes the video.
So the question is, Is there any flag or some way in which the video can be started from the beginning ?
This thing not only happens with video but with pdf's. If an pdf was open and scrolled to the last page, then again opening the pdf again from my application opens it with the last page.
hi hardikI had a similar application to be developed where different
videos should be played when select different items from a list view.
I tried to test my application for the behavior that the video resumes
from last played frame if launch again from the app.
For me it always starts from the beginning. I have tested this on 4.2.2
and 4.4 versions only
The code to start the video was something like this:
Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
in.setDataAndType(uripath, "video/*");
startActivity(in);
This question is answered here already Android play video intent with start position, particularly in this comment from CommonsWare
Even if there were, they would be on a per-app basis.
If you need this level of control over the video playback,
handle the video playback yourself within your own app
(e.g., VideoView), rather than pass control to third party apps
See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/VideoView.html#seekTo(int) and Playing a video in VideoView in Android
When you delegate to another application with an intent, you get what you get. You should control this within your app using the video player, and if you probably need a library for a pdf view widget. Something like http://code.google.com/p/apv/.
As you use an intent to play the video, it is really up to the acting application how to interpret and handle the intent. Unless the acting application (the one handling the intent you're firing) accepts extra parameters to choose between start-from-beginning and resume, there is really not much you can do.
For full control, use your own video player.
Use VideoView to resolve your problem.
private VideoView myVideoView;
VideoView has an inbuilt method start() which will start your video from the beginning like this:
#Override
public void onStart(){
super.onStart();
myVideoView.start();
}
You can also use the myVideoView.start() on onResume method as well.
Hope this would help. :)
I am completely unsure of this. I also agree on the other views that it is the responsibility of the called Application to handle the intent as it wishes.
However, a wild guess would be to change the uri:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(
uriPath.buildUpon()
.appendQueryParameter("t", String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()))
.build(),
"video/mp4"
);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
Note: I did not have the problem that you are mentioning. The video always restarted.
I want to launch some apps which accept geo coordinates (http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html). The problem is that they want different URIs.
Example (pseudo code):
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.addSomeUri("http://maps.google.com/maps/?daddr="+myAddress);
intent.addSomeUri("http://someotherservice.com/?coordinates="+myLat+":"+myLng+"&address=myAddress");
EDIT:
Of course the goal is for both apps to appear in the same activity chooser.
How can I achieve it?
How can I achieve it?
Call startActivity() (or startService() or whatever) once per Uri.
Do you really want to launch every app?
If not, you have simpler way
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("geo:30.0, 120.0"));
startActivity(intent);
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'm interested in capturing media to use in my activity in two ways:
1) capturing immediately from the supplied app. (like Using the camera activity in Android)
Intent camera = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
this.startActivityForResult(camera, PICTURE_RESULT);
2) browse a picture/video/audio gallery and pick from the list.
I notice I can call up for the photo gallery
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, target);
startActivity(intent);
But how about for video only? audio only? How will I get the URI from any of them?
a FEW problems, you need to do startActivityForResult..
But just take a look at this post, its already been done by lots of people.
Android ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Intent