Are you trying to launch an activity that you created, or an arbitrary third party app?
Thanks, Justin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > After searching through some online and the package manager methods, I > came across ApplicationInfo and a way to open an app activity using > this as below: > > ApplicationInfo ai > PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); > try { > Intent i = pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage(ai.packageName); > startActivity(i); > } > catch (Exception e) { > Toast t = Toast.makeText(this, "Couldn't launch the application.", > Toast.LENGTH_SHORT); > t.show(); > } > > However, I need to have the application info in 'ai' to make the above > code work... I don't seem to understand how ApplicationInfo works on a > particular app. Help please!!! > > Abhi > > On Sep 18, 8:25 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Abhi wrote: > > > Thanks Mark. > > > > > Can you give an example for launching the Youtube app from within my > > > app? I have tried startActivity() to open up Gallery this way: > > > > > Intent intent2 = new Intent(); > > > intent2.setClassName("com.android.camera", > > > "com.android.camera.GalleryPicker"); > > > intent2.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); > > > startActivity(intent2) > > > > > Couldn't understand how to do it with other apps. > > > > You will need to use methods on PackageManager to determine an > > appropriate activity to use for that package. > > getLaunchIntentForPackage() is probably worth trying. > > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com| > http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > Android 1.5 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
