I'm trying to make a custom launcher for android, and I'm trying to figure out how to launch a different application form mine. I figured the way to do it was intents, and I've found a post on it here:
Open another application from your own (intent)
I don't really understand the answer though! Can someone give me a concise snippet or series of steps to go from a single ResolveInfo to launching the app represented by that ResolveInfo?
Given a ResolveInfo
named launchable
:
ActivityInfo activity=launchable.activityInfo;
ComponentName name=new ComponentName(activity.applicationInfo.packageName,
activity.name);
Intent i=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK |
Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED);
i.setComponent(name);
startActivity(i);
(from https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-omnibus/tree/master/Introspection/Launchalot)
Create an new Intent by this way.
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClassName(resolveInfo.activityInfo.applicationInfo.packageName,
resolveInfo.activityInfo.name);
startActivity(intent);