How are you going to let the user choose what action to take when this "super button" is pressed? Probably you will show some list of apps that the user will manually select, right? If that's the case then once the app is selected you know exactly the application and you can get its icon, etc...
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM, neuromit <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok this is what I want to do: > > I have a button in my app, lets call it a super button. I let the user > define the action of this button. The user can select options such as: > send SMS, send an Email, open a browser, etc... > > I would like the icon of this button to be the icon of the users > preferred application for that function. This is simple to do when a > user has actually selected a default application. I can iterate > through the list of preferred apps and check each one to see if it > matches the action of the super button. > > However, if the user only has the stock SMS or email client installed > then the application will not show up in the preferred application > list. I can get a list of installed packages and applications with > their associated icons, however, what I am trying to figure out is > this: > > how can I take the list of installed applications and figure out which > one, of the many installed, is the sms application. I've tried to use > the dataScheme identifier but I am unable to get that information > using the methods provided by > getPackageManager().getInstalledPackages() or > getPackageManager().getInstallApplications > > > Does this help clarify my problem? > > On Dec 17, 2:44 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now why do you need this anyway? Make an icon labeled "share", launch > > action_send, and be done with it. > > > > The rest is controlled by the user - sharing by SMS, email, instant > > messages, twitter, Facebook, and possibly a thousand apps that have not > been > > invented yet. Your application will be ready for any of them. > > > > If this requirement comes from a pointy-haired boss, explain "the Android > > way" and hopefully they'll understand. > > > > -- > > Kostya Vasilyev --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > 17.12.2010 22:31 пользователь "TreKing" <[email protected]> написал: > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- YuviDroid Check out Launch-X <http://android.yuvalsharon.net/launchx.php> (a widget to quickly access your favorite apps and contacts!) http://android.yuvalsharon.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
