You are using hand-written constants all over the place. The SDK has a
constant for the main action -- Intent.ACTION_MAIN. There are Intent and
ComponentName constructors to build references to activities through the
Context and their Class.
You don't even need to use ACTION_MAIN if you are just explicitly starting
one of your components.
If you are using getApplication(), then this code will work the same way no
matter where you do it from -- Activity, Service, or Receiver.
There is nothing preventing you from starting an activity from any of these
places, you just need to set Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK if you aren't
launching the activity from an existing activity (since without an activity
you don't have an existing task to launch in to).
It would help if you gave more information -- what errors you are seeing in
the log etc.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Marc <marcolebull...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> after googling all the day, I have solution to actually start an
> external activity from a receiver.
> In the end I added a service to the package, so the receiver starts
> the service and the service should start the activity. Of course that
> doesn't sound very efficient at all, but in addition to this it
> doesn't work either. Thats my code from the service:
>
> public void onCreate() {
> super.onCreate();
> Intent i = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
> ComponentName n = new
> ComponentName("com.schwimmer.android.carmode",
> "com.schwimmer.android.carmode.ToggleCarMode");
> i.setComponent(n);
> i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
> getApplication().startActivity(i);
> //this.stopSelf();
>
> If I put this code into an activity and start it wit
> this.startActivity() it works like a charm. But not if it is put into
> the receiver or server.
>
> Do you have any idea how to fix that?
>
> Thanks!
> Marc
>
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