Thanks Dianne, that's what I thought, hence this question. Glad to know that using 'am' is not the way to go. Could you please provide a link to the SDK where it talks about this? If there is an example, that'll be awesome
Thanks again HV On Saturday, July 7, 2012 5:13:07 PM UTC-7, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > No don't do that, the am command is not part of the SDK, and doing it this > way is horrible inefficient (you need to spin up and initialize a fresh > Dalvik vm for the am command, which takes a second or more), and usually > totally broken because you are not launching the activity from your own > context for the system to correctly associate the call with you. > > And on top of that, your example here uses an explicit component name of > the browser activity, which is *completely* an implementation detail: it is > likely to be different across different devices, it is *definitely* > different on devices that ship with Chrome as the default browser, etc. > > This is totally wrong. > > The right thing to do is follow the SDK and do it the right way, the way > it is documented. If you need to write a little bit of JNI code (and it > *is* a little bit, just a method call into your own Java method that uses > the SDK), then that is what you do. > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Sandeep Kumar <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> try below:- >> >> ret = execl("/system/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "am start -a >> android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity", (char >> *)NULL); >> >> >> >> On Saturday, July 7, 2012 3:51:58 AM UTC+9, HV wrote: >>> >>> Wanted to know what is the best practice to launch apps from native >>> code? Is using 'am' forbidden? It has to be via the system call though, >>> like system("am start ..."); Will 'am' support be discontinued going >>> forward? >>> >>> Is there any alternative method? >>> >>> Thanks much >>> HV >>> >> -- >> unsubscribe: [email protected] >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
