Query the package manager for all home activities, and pick the one that has
the SYSTEM flag set.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:26 AM, MrSnowflake <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> But using CATEGORY_HOME won't solve his problem.
>
> On 10 mrt, 19:41, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Don't use the package and class name directly, this will work only for
> > the current default Home screen. Use an Intent with the CATEGORY_HOME
> > instead.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM, MrSnowflake <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > As I said on Anddev.org earlier:
> > > Intent myIntent = new Intent();
> > > myIntent.setClassName("com.android.launcher",
> > > "com.android.launcher.Launcher");
> > > startActivity(myIntent);
> >
> > > On 10 mrt, 14:18, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> I can't help you with this. Tough luck - I'd assume that when an
> > >> intent has alternative intent filters and an intent filter crashes,
> > >> the user would be presented with the list of intent filters to retry
> > >> the operation. I guess that's not the case or you wouldn't be asking.
> >
> > >> Cheers
> >
> > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Kakyoin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> > On Mar 10, 7:31 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >> "Here are some examples of other operations you can specify as
> intents
> > >> >> using these additional parameters:
> >
> > >> >>     *
> >
> > >> >>       ACTION_MAIN with category CATEGORY_HOME -- Launch the home
> screen."
> >
> > >> >>http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
> >
> > >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Kakyoin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >> >> > Topic.  Short and sweet question. And I did browse the forum
> before
> > >> >> > asking.
> >
> > >> >> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > >> > Hi. Thank you for the reply.
> >
> > >> > But actually I do have another Alternative Home application (which I
> > >> > set to default for CATEGORY_HOME).
> >
> > >> > In this case, let's assume that this Alternative Home has a but in
> its
> > >> > onCreate(), this bug cause the "Force close" screen.
> >
> > >> > The real problem is: when user set my Alternative Home as their
> > >> > 'default action for 'Home' ', then shutdown the device and turn it
> > >> > back on. It'll keep crashing at the start up.
> >
> > >> > The user can't press back to go to system's Home app; there's no
> > >> > system's Home to go back to (because my Alternative Home is the
> > >> > default and is the only 'Home'  loaded at boot time)
> >
> > >> > I'm sorry for my bad English. >_<  What I'm trying to do is to
> handle
> > >> > that bug(which actually only happen when user has no SD card
> present)
> > >> > by doing this: "if there's no SD card inserted, then just launch the
> > >> > System's Home app instead"
> >
> > >> > here's my code when the SD card is not found:
> >
> > >> > Intent i = new Intent();
> > >> > i.setAction("android.intent.action.MAIN");
> > >> > i.addCategory("android.intent.category.HOME");
> > >> > startActivity(i); // this launch my Alternative Home (because it is
> > >> > set as default)
> >
> > >> > Anyway, Thank you for your reply. =)
> >
> > --
> > Romain Guy
> > Android framework engineer
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time
> > to provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on
> > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them
> >
>


-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
[email protected]

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
forums, where I and others can see and answer them.

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