In this case what would be the best scenario for testing if activities
exist to handle intents while on an emulator. If you use PackageManager to
queryIntentActivities it will always return at least 1 since fallback will
be included.
On Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 12:05:31 PM UTC-7, Xavier Ducrohet wrote:
>
> The Fallback application is an emulator-only application.
> It contains an activity that accepts a lot of intents with a very low
> priority.
>
> When an intent is fired and no other application accepts it, then the
> Fallback activity receives it to display the "not implemented"
> message.
>
> Of course, this only works with intents defined by the platform. If
> you send an intent that you created, you will get a crash.
>
> We figured this would help differentiate errors and cases where a
> default application is not bundled with the emulator.
> For instance clicking Settings in the menu of the HOME application
> will show this instead of crashing because it's just a matter of the
> Settings app not being bundled with the emulator.
>
> Xav
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, friedger <frie...@googlemail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> > There is something like com.android.fallback.Fallback
> >
> > If I click on google reader in the browser and select All items I get
> > a customized error message ("Unsupported action") instead of an
> > ActivityNotFoundException or so.
> >
> > This customized error message is trigger by the following intent:
> > Intent { action=android.intent.action.VIEW
> > categories={android.intent.category.BROWSABLE}
> > data=mailto:xxxxx...@googlemail.com comp={com.android.fallback/
> > com.android.fallback.Fallback} }
> >
> > Does anybody know anything about Fallback?
> >
> > Could this be related to the feature reqeuest for a "fallback" intent
> > (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=910)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Friedger
> > >
> >
>
>
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