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Mark Sutter
Mark Sutter

Reputation: 23

Android TV: How to prompt user to add Google account

Users of my Android TV (Nexus Player, NVIDIA Shield TV, Razer Forge TV, etc.) app sometimes do not have a Google account linked to their device. I want my app to send them to the Android TV "Add Account" activity.

Here is the code that I have tried:

    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setAction(Settings.ACTION_ADD_ACCOUNT);
    intent.putExtra(Settings.EXTRA_ACCOUNT_TYPES, new String[]{"com.google"});
    startActivity(intent);

This code does not work, although in the logcat I see the following:

I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=android.settings.ADD_ACCOUNT_SETTINGS cmp=com.android.tv.settings/.accounts.AccountSettingsActivity (has extras)} from uid 10089 on display 0

Why does this do nothing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 185

Answers (1)

Mark Sutter
Mark Sutter

Reputation: 23

This works:

Intent intent = AccountPicker.newChooseAccountIntent(null, null, new String[]{"com.google"}, false, null, null, null, null);
startActivityForResult(intent, 1);

Upvotes: 1

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