Thanks Mark. I have commented on that issue. FWIW I think Dianne is wrong on that one. A non-exported Activity with an intent filter is not poor coding, it's use case that wasn't considered by the original Intent#createChooser implementation.
Looks like I have little choice but to implement a custom chooser and inject my Activity into it. William On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:47:54 AM UTC+10, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:39 PM, William Ferguson > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > @Mark @Kristopher really? the doco for android:exported seems to > indicate > > that setting it to false will produce the precise behaviour I am looking > > for. > > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#exported > > > IMHO, it is because the chooser is written poorly. According to > Google, it is because having a non-exported activity with an > <intent-filter> is poor coding. > > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29535 > > > http://commonsware.com/blog/2012/04/25/how-isolated-adobe-reader-activity-issue.html > > > > And testing on a JellyBean device indicates that it is indeed so. The > > Activity becomes available for selection via the IntentChooser when > invoked > > from within my app but is not visible when invoked from another app. > > > > What makes you think this is not the correct solution? > > Because they apparently just fixed it, if your statement is correct. I > have no idea when. As I noted in the issue, it does not work at least > Android 2.2 through Android 4.0.3. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Localized Android Question-and-Answer Sites: http://www.andglobe.com > -- 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
