[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Hi,

Is there a way to just change the app launched when the user presses
the CALL (green) button ?

TIA

Shimon


On Oct 14, 9:05 am, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If you were to ship your own device, you could either pre-configure
 the settins to already have that as the default, or simply build your
 own version of the OS with your own contacts app (once the source is
 released).

 On Oct 13, 4:19 pm, Rohit Mordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  What I meant is - if I were to ship a device with the replacement app
  as the default (out of the box), rather than confusing the user.
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-14 Thread hackbod 

If you were to ship your own device, you could either pre-configure
the settings to already have that as the default, or simply build your
own version of the OS with your own contacts app (once the source is
released).

On Oct 13, 4:19 pm, Rohit Mordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What I meant is - if I were to ship a device with the replacement app
 as the default (out of the box), rather than confusing the user.
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-13 Thread Rohit Mordani 

How about replacing the contacts app with your own - Is there any way
to do that?

Rohit


On Sep 29, 8:00 pm, Xolotl Loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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  2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't
  necessarily grant access to the underlying content providers that
  power the native applications. At the moment (this might change)
  access to the native mail, SMS, and IM Content Providers is not
  available.

 I figured out how to read the SMS provider:

   Cursor c =
 this.getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse(content://sms/inbox), null,
 null, null, null);
   Log.d(TAG, Read  + Integer.toString(c.getCount()) +  SMS messages
 from content ( + Integer.toString(c.getColumnCount()) +  columns));
   String[] cols = c.getColumnNames();
   for(int i = 0; i  cols.length; i++) {
       Log.d(TAG, Column:  + cols[i]);
   }
   while(c.moveToNext()) {
       Log.d(TAG, c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(address)) + : +
 c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(person)) + :
 +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(date)) + :
 +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(body)));
   }

 I saw the URI content://sms/inbox after adding the receiver and
 listening for incoming SMS.  I got the column names from the middle
 block of code.

 cheers,
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-13 Thread hackbod 

Sure, the contacts provider is public, and you can handle the action
that is broadcast by the phone button.

Note that in -any- situation where you are replacing an app, the
original application will still be there in the launcher for the user
to see, what it means to replace an app is that you handle the various
Intent activities etc that the built-in one does, so the user can
decide to use your app instead of the built-in one.

On Oct 13, 11:36 am, Rohit Mordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 How about replacing the contacts app with your own - Is there any way
 to do that?

 Rohit

 On Sep 29, 8:00 pm, Xolotl Loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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   2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't
   necessarily grant access to the underlying content providers that
   power the native applications. At the moment (this might change)
   access to the native mail, SMS, and IM Content Providers is not
   available.

  I figured out how to read the SMS provider:

    Cursor c =
  this.getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse(content://sms/inbox), null,
  null, null, null);
    Log.d(TAG, Read  + Integer.toString(c.getCount()) +  SMS messages
  from content ( + Integer.toString(c.getColumnCount()) +  columns));
    String[] cols = c.getColumnNames();
    for(int i = 0; i  cols.length; i++) {
        Log.d(TAG, Column:  + cols[i]);
    }
    while(c.moveToNext()) {
        Log.d(TAG, c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(address)) + : +
  c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(person)) + :
  +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(date)) + :
  +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(body)));
    }

  I saw the URI content://sms/inbox after adding the receiver and
  listening for incoming SMS.  I got the column names from the middle
  block of code.

  cheers,
  - --
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-13 Thread Rohit Mordani 

Thanks - I figured out that the original app co-exists with the
replacing app and the user has a choice to select either (kinda like
windows). I like that, though it would be awesome if there was a
setting to select the default app.

The follow up to the previous question that I have is - how do I find
out what actions/intent (that are handled by the contacts app) to
override? For example, I found out that to replace the home screen you
need to have the following intent filter in the manifest:

intent-filter
action 
android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN/action
category 
android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/
category
category 
android:name=android.intent.category.HOME/category
/intent-filter

I found this in the groups - how do I find out the set of actions/
category/data to override for replacing the contacts app? Is there
some documentation by Google on this?

Rohit

On Oct 13, 12:05 pm, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sure, the contacts provider is public, and you can handle the action
 that is broadcast by the phone button.

 Note that in -any- situation where you are replacing an app, the
 original application will still be there in the launcher for the user
 to see, what it means to replace an app is that you handle the various
 Intent activities etc that the built-in one does, so the user can
 decide to use your app instead of the built-in one.

 On Oct 13, 11:36 am, Rohit Mordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  How about replacing the contacts app with your own - Is there any way
  to do that?

  Rohit

  On Sep 29, 8:00 pm, Xolotl Loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't
necessarily grant access to the underlying content providers that
power the native applications. At the moment (this might change)
access to the native mail, SMS, and IM Content Providers is not
available.

   I figured out how to read the SMS provider:

     Cursor c =
   this.getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse(content://sms/inbox), null,
   null, null, null);
     Log.d(TAG, Read  + Integer.toString(c.getCount()) +  SMS messages
   from content ( + Integer.toString(c.getColumnCount()) +  columns));
     String[] cols = c.getColumnNames();
     for(int i = 0; i  cols.length; i++) {
         Log.d(TAG, Column:  + cols[i]);
     }
     while(c.moveToNext()) {
         Log.d(TAG, c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(address)) + : +
   c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(person)) + :
   +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(date)) + :
   +c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(body)));
     }

   I saw the URI content://sms/inbox after adding the receiver and
   listening for incoming SMS.  I got the column names from the middle
   block of code.

   cheers,
   - --
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-13 Thread hackbod 

On Oct 13, 2:37 pm, Rohit Mordani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks - I figured out that the original app co-exists with the
 replacing app and the user has a choice to select either (kinda like
 windows). I like that, though it would be awesome if there was a
 setting to select the default app.

In the dialog to pick which one to use, there is a checkbox to make
that selection the defaut.

 The follow up to the previous question that I have is - how do I find
 out what actions/intent (that are handled by the contacts app) to
 override? For example, I found out that to replace the home screen you
 need to have the following intent filter in the manifest:

Many of these can be determined by locking at the constants for Intent
and the types and constants for the contacts provider.  There does
need to be better documentation.

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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-10-13 Thread Rohit Mordani 



What I meant is - if I were to ship a device with the replacement app
as the default (out of the box), rather than confusing the user.



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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-09-30 Thread Xolotl Loki 

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 2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't
 necessarily grant access to the underlying content providers that
 power the native applications. At the moment (this might change)
 access to the native mail, SMS, and IM Content Providers is not
 available.
 

I figured out how to read the SMS provider:

  Cursor c =
this.getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse(content://sms/inbox), null,
null, null, null);
  Log.d(TAG, Read  + Integer.toString(c.getCount()) +  SMS messages
from content ( + Integer.toString(c.getColumnCount()) +  columns));
  String[] cols = c.getColumnNames();
  for(int i = 0; i  cols.length; i++) {
  Log.d(TAG, Column:  + cols[i]);
  }
  while(c.moveToNext()) {
  Log.d(TAG, c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(address)) + : +
c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(person)) + :
+c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(date)) + :
+c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(body)));
  }

I saw the URI content://sms/inbox after adding the receiver and
listening for incoming SMS.  I got the column names from the middle
block of code.

cheers,
- --
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[android-developers] Re: Replacing Dialer, IM, and SMS Apps

2008-09-29 Thread Reto Meier 

I've found the answer to some of these questions independantly, so
I'll answer myself here for the reference of others:

1) Intercepting SMS Messages. The helper strings and methods to
simplify intercepting incoming SMS messages have been removed, but you
can still listen for (and read) incoming messages manually:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/android-developers/msg/f7808980db6fc5cf

2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't
necessarily grant access to the underlying content providers that
power the native applications. At the moment (this might change)
access to the native mail, SMS, and IM Content Providers is not
available.

3) Telephony APIs. You can listen for incoming / outgoing calls but
you can't interact with them. That means you can replace the dialer
(fire the DIAL action to initiate the call), but you can't (yet)
replace the 'in-call' screen that lets users answer and end calls.

4) Instant Messaging. There's not API to support any sort of instant
messaging in the 1.0 r1 release.

Cheers
Reto

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On 24 Sep, 10:55, Reto Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In the early days of Android it was suggested that 3rd party
 developers would be able to replace any of the 'native' Google
 applications -- including the Dialer, IM client, and SMS application.

 After having a look at the 1.0 SDK it seems this isn't possible for
 the first release. Is this the case? Can a Googler give us some
 feedback on exactly what's been restricted so we don't waste too much
 time looking for something that isn't there? :)

 It would also be good to know if you're planning on opening up access
 later.

 From what I can tell so far, the following is now restricted:
 - Receiving Intents for incoming SMS messages.
 - Access to the SMS, IM, mail, etc. Content Providers.
 - A telephony API to start, end, and manage calls.
 - An Instant Messaging (GTalkService) API. Specifically the ability to
 send / receive IM TEXT messages.

 There's more, but these are the main ones I can't find in 1.0 that
 were available in 0.9.

 Cheers
 Reto Meier

 
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