Android Question How to know the app chosen by user in an intent?

[Alpandino]

Hi, in my app I'm using intent to share some text. I'd like to know which is the app chosen by user to share the text.
Is it possible?

I looked in the forum and in the questions sections, and I found two pages that partially give an answer to my question....
This:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...forresult-and-onactivityresult.26077/#content

And this:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...forresult-and-onactivityresult.26077/#content

Is there someone that know how do this?

Thankyou

 

[Erel]

You are looking for the first item in the list that is returned from PackageManager.QueryIntentActivities.

 

[DonManfred]

No, he want to know the APP which the user selected to share with....

 

[Alpandino]

No, he want to know the APP which the user selected to share with....

Manfred, you're right, this is my goal.
PackageManager is not useful in this case.

 

[somed3v3loper]

This answer might be useful

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23494967

 

[Erel]

You can create such a list yourself and let the user select the app (using PackageManager.QueryIntentActivities to find the relevant apps).

 

[Alpandino]

This answer might be useful

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23494967

I'll try and I'll let you know the results.
Many thank!

 

[fredo]

..and I'll let you know the results..

Any success so far?

I'm interested in a solution also...

 

[DonManfred]

Any success so far?

I'm interested in a solution also...

The link on SO just does nothing more than @Erel described in #6

 

[Alpandino]

I didn't had time to deal with this question

Any success so far?

I'm interested in a solution also...

 

[fredo]

I didn't had time to deal with this question

OK, while fiddling around with the informations I figured out a way to make a custom chooser for an ACTION_SEND Intent that excludes the own app.

Spoiler: Content chooser "without own package"

The Manifest that makes the app availabe as SENDER, so we can test to avoid it in the chooser:

'This code will be applied to the manifest file during compilation.
'You do not need to modify it in most cases.
'See this link for for more information: https://www.b4x.com/forum/showthread.php?p=78136
AddManifestText(
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" android:targetSdkVersion="19"/>
<supports-screens android:largeScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:smallScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true"/>)
SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")
SetApplicationAttribute(android:label, "$LABEL$")
'End of default text.

'
AddApplicationText(
<activity android:name="main" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:mimeType="image/*" />
            <data android:mimeType="text/*" />
        </intent-filter>
</activity>
)

Sub SendChooser(strPath As String, strFile As String)
  
    uriX.Parse("file://" & File.Combine(strPath, strFile))
  
    Dim mapSkipForList As Map
    mapSkipForList.Initialize
    mapSkipForList.Put("com.google.android.apps.maps", True) ' Example

    ' Comment the next line out to proof that your app can be skipped or not
    mapSkipForList.Put(Application.PackageName, True) ' <<--- <<--- <<--- This is your own package name

    '
    Dim strPackageName As String = ""
    Dim pm As PackageManager
    Dim Intent1 As Intent
    Intent1.Initialize(Intent1.ACTION_SEND, "file://")
    Intent1.SetType("image/*")
    '
    Log(" ")
    For Each cn As String In pm.QueryIntentActivities(Intent1)
        strPackageName = cn.SubString2(0, cn.IndexOf("/"))
        If mapSkipForList.ContainsKey(strPackageName) Then
            Log("    >> Skipped strPackageName=" & strPackageName)  
        Else
            Log("Used strPackageName=" & strPackageName)  
            Dim bdw As BitmapDrawable = pm.GetApplicationIcon(strPackageName)
            lv.AddTwoLinesAndBitmap2(pm.GetApplicationLabel(strPackageName), "", bdw.Bitmap, cn )
        End If
    Next
    Log(" ")
  
End Sub


Sub LvChooser_ItemClick (Position As Int, Value As Object)
   Log($"LvChooser_ItemClick, Position=${Position}, Value=${Value}"$)
  
   Dim Intent1 As Intent
   Intent1.Initialize(Intent1.ACTION_SEND , "file://")
   Intent1.SetComponent(Value)
   Intent1.SetType("image/*")
   Intent1.PutExtra("android.intent.extra.STREAM", uriX)  ' <<-- "uriX" contains the path yout setup to your file with uriX.Parse(...)
  StartActivity(Intent1)

 

[DonManfred]

OK, while fiddling around

Thank you for this example!
BTW: I got a exception without this line

    mapSkipForList.Put("com.android.nfc",True)

The exception was

** Service (starter) Create **
** Service (starter) Start **
** Activity (main) Create, isFirst = true **
** Activity (main) Resume **
Used strPackageName=com.samsung.android.app.memo
Used strPackageName=com.android.mms
Used strPackageName=com.samsung.android.app.FileShareClient
Used strPackageName=com.android.bluetooth
Used strPackageName=com.google.android.talk
>> Skipped strPackageName=com.google.android.apps.maps
Used strPackageName=com.google.android.apps.photos
Used strPackageName=com.samsung.android.email.provider
Used strPackageName=com.android.nfc
main_sendchooser (java line: 457)
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.samsung.android.sdk.spr.drawable.SprDrawable cannot be cast to android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable
at b4a.example.contchoos.main._sendchooser(main.java:457)
at b4a.example.contchoos.main._activity_resume(main.java:358)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:169)
at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent(BA.java:153)
at b4a.example.contchoos.main.afterFirstLayout(main.java:108)
at b4a.example.contchoos.main.access$000(main.java:17)
at b4a.example.contchoos.main$WaitForLayout.run(main.java:80)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:158)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7229)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

 

[fredo]

..The exception was...
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.samsung.android.sdk.spr.drawable.SprDrawable cannot be cast to android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable...

Seems that the Samsung device has an inedible "SpriteDrawable" for NFC.

Since I can't reproduce the error to find a fix I would think that a dirty Try-Catch could help as a temporary workaround until a profound solution is available.