I think you were looking for something like this http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/can-i-use-this-intent.html
:) -Dan On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > Use Intent.resolveActivity() if you want to preflight the resolution of > that intent before trying to start an activity for it. (Or you can use the > underlying PackageManager.resolveActivity() API, or > PackageManager.queryIntentActivities(), if you want to do something more > specialized). > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:07 PM, tansaku <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Thanks for your help. Tried that with the following code: >> >> PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); >> >> PackageInfo pi; >> try { >> pi = pm.getPackageInfo("fm.smart", >> PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES); >> for (ActivityInfo a : pi.activities) { >> Log.d("PACKAGE-DEBUG", a.name); >> } >> pi = pm.getPackageInfo("android.speech", >> PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES); >> for (ActivityInfo a : pi.activities) { >> Log.d("PACKAGE-DEBUG", a.name); >> } >> } catch (NameNotFoundException e) { >> // TODO Auto-generated catch block >> e.printStackTrace(); >> } >> >> and I get all my activities, but the android.speech call returns >> nothing on both emulator and phone, where my phone does support >> voice ... >> >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.Main >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.ListsList >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.ItemListActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.CreateItemActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.CreateExampleActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.CreateSoundActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.ShowItem >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.ItemActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.PreferenceActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.LoginActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): >> fm.smart.activity.SignUpActivity >> 08-31 09:59:28.797: WARN/System.err(9408): >> android.content.pm.PackageManager$NameNotFoundException: >> android.speech >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ApplicationContext$ApplicationPackageManager.getPackageInfo >> (ApplicationContext.java:1503) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> fm.smart.Main.onCreate(Main.java:466) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java: >> 1123) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java: >> 2231) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java: >> 2284) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(ActivityThread.java:112) >> 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1692) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run >> (ZygoteInit.java:782) >> 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540) >> 08-31 09:59:28.827: WARN/System.err(9408): at >> dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) >> >> android.speech only includes a RecognizerIntent - so I wonder if I >> should be looking for Intents rather than activities - but maybe I >> just can't access package info of android.speech from my app ... >> >> On Aug 28, 9:04 am, "Roman ( T-Mobile USA)" <roman.baumgaert...@t- >> mobile.com> wrote: >> > You might want to look in the PackageManager class with which you can >> > retrieve installed packages/applications information. >> > >> > Look athttp:// >> developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInfo... >> > (flag GET_ACTIVITIES). >> > >> > -- >> > Roman Baumgaertner >> > Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC >> > ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together >> > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the >> > author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily >> > represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. >> > >> > On Aug 27, 7:10 pm,tansaku<[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Is there some way to check the set of available activities? I want to >> > > check for the presence of android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH in >> > > order to disable buttons that will take the user to that function on >> > > phones that don't have the voice recognition support. >> > >> > > At the moment all I can tell is that I get the following exception: >> > >> > > android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle >> > > Intent { action=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH (has extras) } >> > >> > > Other posts on this list seem to suggest this exception can't be >> > > caught. Perhaps there is a base level Java way to determine if the >> > > library is available. >> > >> > > Any help greatly appreciated. >> > >> > > CHEERS> SAM >> >> > > > -- > 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. 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