[android-developers] Re: Launching an application from a email. Is that possible?

2011-01-26 Thread mbuchanan
I'm also having no luck with intent URIs. It would be very helpful if someone could post an example href that launched some common app, e.g. calculator. It seems to me it should be something like a

[android-developers] Re: Launching an application from a email. Is that possible?

2011-01-09 Thread sdphil
interesting. so I made that call got the string back, and plugged that string into here -- a href=intent:#Intent;a...Test Link/a and it still tried to browse to that page within the browser... On Jan 8, 12:21 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: There is no need to play

[android-developers] Re: Launching an application from a email. Is that possible?

2011-01-08 Thread sdphil
okay, i finally got this to work, but it will only work if i use a unique scheme. if I try to do it without a standard http scheme, then i can't get it to work -- even if I specify mimeType. On Jan 7, 8:01 am, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: I think yes.

[android-developers] Re: Launching an application from a email. Is that possible?

2011-01-08 Thread sdphil
okay, yeah, doesn't work -- intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW/ category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/ category android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE/ data

Re: [android-developers] Re: Launching an application from a email. Is that possible?

2011-01-08 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There is no need to play tricks with schemes and intent filters matching hosts and paths and such. Just use this Intent.toUri() method to turn the actual Intent you want (such as one with a custom action of yours and the package set to your app's package name) into a URI you can use else where