Reputation: 39698
Specifically, I'm trying to figure out if there is an application to handle the market intent, but I'd like a general case solution.
I know if you do something like this, you can tell if there is an application available to handle the intent. I'm trying to do something that doesn't actually launch the intent. Any ideas on what I might do?
try
{
String strURL="market://details?id="+thePackage;
Intent the_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(strURL));
the_intent.addFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
startActivity(the_intent)
}
catch (ActivityNotFoundException e)
{
String strUrl="https://play.google.com/store/search?c=apps&q="+thePackage;
Intent the_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(strUrl));
the_intent.addFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
startActivity(the_intent)
}
What I want is a solution that doesn't involve actually starting the activity. There's a few reasons why I want to do this, but I imagine I'm not the only one to have thought of a reason for this, it seems like there must be a way...
Upvotes: 3
Views: 560
Reputation: 39698
This is a practical example from CommonWare's answer.
String strURL="market://details?id="+thePackage;
Intent the_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(strURL));
the_intent.addFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
Log.v(TAG,""+_context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(the_intent,Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK));
if (_context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(the_intent,0).size()==0)
{
String strUrl="https://play.google.com/store/search?c=apps&q="+thePackage;
the_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(strUrl));
the_intent.addFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
}
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1006614
Use PackageManager
and queryIntentActivities()
or resolveActivity()
. The former will return a List
of things that match an Intent
to be used with startActivity()
. The latter will return null
for no matches or an Intent
which is the "best match" (which could be the chooser activity if there is more than one match).
Upvotes: 8