If the Intent or the protocol is not publicly available, then you should not try to do that. The target app can easily change in the future. Just a change of a class name would break your app.
-Kumar Bibek http://kbeanie.com On Aug 26, 10:14 pm, Anil <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking to trap an implicit intent from the launcher, do some > processing, and then call the original target app directly. > To call the target app, I assume it has to be via an explicit intent - > otherwise my app will get called again by Android? > No, I am not reusing anyone's app or parts of it - I want to know what > their main Activity class is, so I can call it directly via an > explicit intent. > I am just looking for a general solution so that I can call any app > explicitly without unintended recursion. > thanks, > Anil > > On Aug 26, 12:55 pm, Matty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Activites that are re-usable should have some published way of > > invoking them... Otherwise, perhaps they do something by file type, > > like if you start an activity for an MP3, audio players should be able > > to launch. Why don't you just ask the developer how to invoke an > > activity, instead of trying to hack through their apk? > > > On Aug 26, 9:41 am, Anil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like to read the android manifest from an apk file. I unzipped > > > it using 7-zip. However, the manifest seems to be in binary with some > > > ascii but a lot of control chars. Was it meant to be hidden? The > > > philosophy behind Android is to share and reuse activities - but if > > > the manifest cannot be read, then I dont know how it can be done. > > > thanks, > > > Anil- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
