I realize this will have to involve the user and a prompt screen will show up; this is OK.
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 3:52:41 PM UTC-7, JavaSrvcs wrote: > > I am looking for two examples (have searched all over, found many examples > and nothing works). > > Inside an activity, I want to be able to install an app > From the Google Play Store > From a url: http://host/path_to/app.apk > > I tried this: > > apkurl is defined above as private String apkurl = " > http://host/path_to/app.apk";; > > this following method called from onCreate() > ... > private void installApp() { > try { > Intent promptInstall = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW) > .setData(Uri.parse(apkurl)) > .setType("application/vnd.android.package-archive"); > startActivity(promptInstall); > } catch (Exception e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > > When the above code is run, I get this exception in the debugger > // android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to > handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW > typ=application/vnd.android.package-arc > } > > I am also looking for a way to install an app via the market URI, I have > tried half a dozen examples and nothing works. If there is an Intent that > I can run that will install an apk from the market for from a direct url > link to an apk, please advise. Spinning my wheels here to get this to work > and any help would be appreciated. > > thanks > > J.V. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
