Android custom categories
- by marian
Hello,
I have a view as a main screen of the application which contains the available application's actions as icon+text pairs ( desktop like).
I want to find out programatically what are the activities defined ONLY in my AndroidManifest.xml
Suppose I have :
< activity android:name="example.mainActivity" android:label="mainActivity"
< intent-filter
< action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /
< category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /
< /intent-filter
< /activity
< activity android:name="example.activity1" android:label="Activity1"
< intent-filter
< action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /
< category android:name="example.custom.ACTIVITY" /
< /intent-filter
< /activity
< activity android:name="example.activity2" android:label="Activity2"
< intent-filter
< action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /
< category android:name="example.custom.ACTIVITY" /
< /intent-filter
< /activity
I want that in the mainActivity to dinamically read Activity1 and Activity2 because when i add Activity3 for example it will be automatically read.
I thought that this could be done by defining a custom category, example.custom.ACTIVITY, and in the mainActivity use the packageManager.queryIntentActivities(Intent intent, int flags) but it doesn't seem to be working.
I really would like to code it to dinamically discover the installed activities in my application.
Do you have any ideas on how to do this?
Thank you
