You always need to have the DEFAULT category for things to be found implicitly by startActivity().
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > ClarkBattle wrote: > > The other developer is sitting right next to me. Its the same > > company. > > Well, that certainly simplifies matters... :-) > > > He just implemented an intent-filter in his manifest to listen for an > > action called "com.poof.intent.action.MovieApp" > > Does his <intent-filter> have anything else? For these sorts of things, > I usually just have the <action> element in the filter and nothing else. > You don't need a category or anything, and they can actually get in the > way a bit. For example, if his <intent-filter> has a category, you'll > need that category in your Intent as well, AFAIK. > > > I changed my code to > > > > Intent intent = new Intent( "com.poof.intent.action.MovieApp" ); > > intent.putExtra("FILENAME", MOVIES[state.currentMovie].filename); > > PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity( context, 0, > > intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT ); > > remoteView.setOnClickPendingIntent( R.id.btnDoIt, pendingIntent ); > > > > And updated his apk on my emulator. The button still does nothing. > > Any ideas? Examples? > > Well, assuming his <intent-filter> is just the <action>, that should be > fine. Are you seeing any warnings in LogCat? If Android can't find a > match on the Intent, it'll toss out a warning, not an error. > > Also, you could toss together a scrap project and call a regular > startActivity() in there on the Intent, to see if that launches. That'll > tell you if your problem is in the Intent construction or in the app > widget proper. > > In terms of an example, here's one where I am starting up the browser on > a URL: > > Intent i=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(c.getString(1))); > PendingIntent pi=PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, i, 0); > > updateViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.title, pi); > updateViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.panel, pi); > > In this case, I am using the same PendingIntent on two views in the app > widget, because the title itself (a TextView) is kinda thin and > difficult to tap, so I have the panel (a layout) behind it also respond > to a click to provide a larger target. Also, c.getString(1) is pulling a > String URL value out of a Cursor. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
