I created an aar and i added it to my project as an module. in this module i have a HelloWorldActivity that i want to run.
my module manifest looks like this.
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
Now i can start this activity from my project using this code
Intent intent = new Intent("ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity");
startActivity(intent);
but as you can see this code is implicit and problem with implicit calling is that if i use this module in more than one app, both installed on user device it will show an app chooser dialog to user. So how can make this call explicit, preventing user from switching app?
this code will not run since HelloWorldActivity is not in the same package as calling activity
Intent intent = new Intent(this, HelloWorldActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
I really don't want to change my module for each project that uses it.