How can i run other app?

[Joselito]

Hi guys,

I need help with how can i run with b4a other app installed in my phone?

I don't know it is posible to do. I'm sorry but my english is a bit bad.

Regards,


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[yttrium]

Do you mean how can you install B4A applications to your phone?

Or how can you install the .apk files that users post here as an application?

 

[Joselito]

No, sorry by my explanation

I need to do an intent or shell to run an app intalled in my phone, from my app build with b4a. So i need to check if it was intalled too.

For instance, in visual basic i can use "shell" to run an app.



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[yttrium]

No, sorry by my explanation

I need to do an intent or shell to run an app intalled in my phone, from my app build with b4a. So i need to check if it was intalled too.

For instance, in visual basic i can use "shell" to run an app.



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Oh.

Use StartActivity.
Keywords - Basic4android Wiki

Also, programming questions like this belong in the Updates and Questions forum.

 

[Joselito]

But startactivity i think is only for the app made with b4a.
I would like to launch for example, the calc of android.

Do you understand me?

Thanks for your patient

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[klaus]

But startactivity i think is only for the app made with b4a.

No !

To launch the calculator you can use the code from this thread.

Best regards.

 

[yttrium]

No !

To launch the calculator you can use the code from this thread.

Best regards.

I dislike how this is hardcoded - it picks the first package with the string "calc" in it and launches.

Wouldn't this best be served with a ContentChooser?

 

[NJDude]

There's no "default calculator app", a manufacturer (like Samsung for example) names the calc app differently, and regarding the "hardcoded" part, that code can be easily modified to display a list to choose from.