You might try asking the package manager if the intent you're sending will have any receivers, also..
Kris On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In that particular example the returning Activity was standard but the >> Activity invoking it was singleInstance. I knew the returning Activity had >> to be standard but I only found out that the caller couldn't be >> singleInstance by time-consuming trial-and-error. I've never seen it >> documented. When I made the caller activity also standard it worked. >> Which illustrates my question: which is whether there's a way to >> systematically find out from Android what happened. Is any of this stuff >> instrumented so we can see why something did or did not happen? >> > > No. > > But you should see something in the logcat that shows an intent was > fired. Do you not see that? The system does not "drop intents > randomly". Can you point out concrete cases where it has without > sufficient error messages, because those would be bugs.. > >> I'm currently trying to debug a case where I can ONLY start an activity if >> it's singleInstance. I don't know why and lots of people on StackOverflow >> have made many guesses and suggestions, none of which (as of this writing) >> have worked. Because we're all fumbling in the dark since we don't know >> what Android is doing behind the scenes. I want to know if there's a way >> to find out. > > There's not logged output from the Android internals that give an > account of why your intent is "dropped" but I am more confused as to > why this would be happening in the first place. In the past, whenever > I've heard this happening, it's because there's always been something > like a misspelling of package name, or something's been signed > incorrectly.. > > Kris -- -- 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.
