[android-beginners] Re: How to programatically launch an installed app?

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Yasser wrote: I want to launch/start an already installed application like Calculator on Android and then send some keystrokes to it. You cannot send keystrokes to other applications. Is there a way to programatically launch an app without having access to its code? If you can find out an

[android-beginners] Re: How to programatically launch an installed app?

2009-07-10 Thread Yasser
To know the intent for an activity in order to launch it, do I need to have access to the app source code? On Jul 10, 1:23 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Yasser wrote: I want to launch/start an already installed application like Calculator on Android and then send some

[android-beginners] Re: How to programatically launch an installed app?

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Yasser wrote: To know the intent for an activity in order to launch it, do I need to have access to the app source code? Ideally, you have documentation telling you hey, it is perfectly acceptable to use this Intent to launch my application: Now, you can find out possible Intents other

[android-beginners] Re: How to programatically launch an installed app?

2009-07-10 Thread Yasser
Thanks a lot Mark, that clarified my doubts. On Jul 10, 4:05 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Yasser wrote: To know the intent for an activity in order to launch it, do I need to have access to the app source code? Ideally, you have documentation telling you hey, it is