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yashbinani
yashbinani

Reputation: 387

Open other applications from my application in android

I want to know how can i make my app as a launcher to start other apps.(Not written by me)

For example i want to open games like

1) Angry Birds 2) Basketball shoot

etc

from my app on click of button for each game. How can i do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 250

Answers (1)

rfsbraz
rfsbraz

Reputation: 2111

Find out thoose games package, and start them via an Intent. Like this:

String packageName = "com.rovio.angrybirds";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
PackageManager manager = getPackageManager();
i = manager.getLaunchIntentForPackage(packageName);
startActivity(i);

Upvotes: 3

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