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Reputation: 429

Android Camera : Does it have a unique package name?

I am building an app that auto sorts installed apps and allows the user to launch those apps. I just ran into a small issue with the camera app. When I scan through the installed apps with 'queryIntentActivities' for 'ResolveInfo' I get the gallery ResolveInfo twice and both objects are identical. I am wondering if I am missing something obvious or the camera is simply not launch-able from a package name.

If the camera and the gallery share the same package would I still be able to use the package manager to pull the icons and labels for each? I want to avoid using my own drawable as different OEMs make different icons.

I am aware that I can simply launch the camera with a capture image intent but I do not care for the results and I want to launch the camera as a stand alone activity plus using this intent doesn't really solve my issue.

Update:

So the ResolveInfo's I am receiving for the camera and gallery aren't exactly the same. They share the same package name but I can pull their respective icons through the ResolveInfo.loadLabel and ResolveInfo.loadIcon (rather then what I was doing with ResolveInfo.ApplicationInfo.loadLabel ... which returned identical labels and icons). However I am still unable to find any way to launch the activities for the camera and gallery separately.

Update 2.0

Problem solved. I found the unique activity string in the ResolveInfo.ActivityInfo.name. Now rather then launching the app with the package name I just launch it with the activity that was listed in that variable.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 20612

Answers (2)

Raju
Raju

Reputation: 92

The best way to get the package name of the camera app is pasted below. You can get the package name by refering to cameraInfo.activityInfo.packageName; returned by the function below

public static ResolveInfo  getCameraPackageName(Context context, PackageManager pm) {
    Intent      intent      = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    ResolveInfo cameraInfo  = null;

    List<ResolveInfo> pkgList = pm.queryIntentActivities(intent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);

    if(pkgList != null && pkgList.size() > 0) {
        cameraInfo = pkgList.get(0);
    }
    return(cameraInfo);
}

Upvotes: 3

krishna
krishna

Reputation: 142

No, the package manager for camera and gallery are different.

for camera - com.android.camera. for gallery - com.android.gallery.

this is the way in which you would differentiate the gallery and camera.

Upvotes: 2

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