There is a button in market to launch the app. So you see in the status bar
that the download is down, select the notification, now you are in market
about the app saying it is installed, and you can press the button there to
launch the app for the first time.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, MrSnowflake <mrsnowfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that's a very good reason not to send it to a newly installed
> app. Though you could give the user the option to start the app
> immediately after install, with a button for example.
>
> On Jun 17, 8:55 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > We deliberately don't send this broadcast to an app when it is first
> > installed (as of cupcake you -will- get the broadcast when being updated
> > from a previous install). It is generally up to the user to launch your
> app
> > when they want to.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, erictcr...@gmail.com <
> erictcr...@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure, but I believe the following code may help.
> >
> > > put the folling in your AndroidManifest.xml as a child of your
> > > Application tag
> >
> > > <receiver android:name="com.ericcrook.InstallReceiver"
> > > android:enabled="true">
> > > <intent-filter>
> > > <action
> > > android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" /
> >
> > > <data android:scheme="package" />
> > > </intent-filter>
> > > </receiver>
> >
> > > Then create a class that extends BroadcastReceiver, and use it's
> > > onReceive method to start your activity
> >
> > > public class InstallReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
> >
> > > public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
> >
> > > String data = intent.getDataString();
> >
> > > if (data.equals("package:com.ericcrook.InstallReceiver")) {
> > > //Start your application using startActivity or whatever is
> > > appropriate for
> > > //your project
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> >
> > > I'm not very good with the Intent system, so some of this may be
> > > correct, but hopefully this is better than nothing.
> >
> > > On Jun 16, 6:21 am, Raj <lal.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I want to start my application just after it gets installed on the
> > > > device. Is there any way out in Android to do so.
> > > > I was wondering if there is any receiver to get informed on package
> > > > installed.
> > > > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Dianne Hackborn
> > Android framework engineer
> > hack...@android.com
> >
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see
> and
> > answer them.
> >
>
--
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com
Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.
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