Activities can't throw exceptions back to you. Any exceptions they throw will be handled in their own process, crashing their own application.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, what should we do when the activity actually *does* exist, but for > reasons of its own Android decides to throw this exception anyway? > > Ref: > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/c1b669c2047a8188# > > > On Jun 23, 12:18 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you know for sure the activity will exist, there is no need to catch > the > > exception. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM, n179911 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The JavaDoc of Context's public abstract void startActivity (Intent > > > intent) said: > > > > > This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity > > > found to run the given Intent. > > > > > But when I look at the android source code, it does not catch > > > ActivityNotFoundException. > > > > > For example in AlarmClock.java: > > > > > digitalClock.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { > > > public void onClick(View v) { > > > if (true) { > > > Intent intent = new > > > Intent(AlarmClock.this, SetAlarm.class); > > > intent.putExtra(Alarms.ID, id); > > > startActivityForResult(intent, SET_ALARM); > > > } else { > > > // TESTING: immediately pop alarm > > > Intent fireAlarm = new > > > Intent(AlarmClock.this, AlarmAlert.class); > > > fireAlarm.putExtra(Alarms.ID, id); > > > > > fireAlarm.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); > > > startActivity(fireAlarm); > > > } > > > } > > > }); > > > > > Can you please tell me what is the code which handles the case when > > > there is no activity for that intent? > > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > 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, 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 [email protected] 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
