You haven't provided enough information to help. Fwiw, the exception -does- get thrown if there is no activity matching the intent given to startActivity(), and the system does not display such a dialog. So I would assume there is something going on in your app doing this, or you are doing something different from what I am interpreting your description to be.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Nmix <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to the doc, if the intent in startActivity(intent) is not > found, there will be an exception raised. Therefore I use a try/catch > block. However, even if I use a random string as the intent, the > promised exception does not occur. > > Instead I see a dialog that says: "No application can perform this > function". I also get the same dialog if the intent is valid (picked > up by an app) but apparently doesn't want to act when the extras are > not what the app expects (e.g. my earlier question about > Intent.ACTION_SEND and mime types). > > I am using the 1.5_r2 SDK on an AVD running 1.5, with the app running > at version 1.1 (sdk=2). Is this a doc error, a bug or am I > misunderstanding something? Can I simply delete the try/catch block? > Thanks. > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

