[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

[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 -

[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: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2) Hidden Content Providers. The open access guarantees don't necessarily grant access to the

[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

[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

[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.

[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. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

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

2008-09-30 Thread Xolotl Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[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