Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible?

Added by sublimnl about 2 years ago

When poking around I saw the block type "{Action -- Advanced}" at the very bottom of the block type list. It asks for an "Intent URI". Is there a way to leverage this to launch applications? I am creating a "Car Home" for my droid and would like to use my own large, crisp graphics instead of the app icons. This seems like the way to do it, but I dont know what to use for the "Intent URI" or if it is even capable of this functionality.

Anyone know? Thanks!


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RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Cuda1337 about 2 years ago

I would also like to know what the Action-Advanced section is for. Seems like it has some capabilities, I just don't understand what Intent URI is supposed to be?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by shaneaus about 2 years ago

If you don't know what an "Intent URI" is then I would humbly suggest that you not use this block.

However, if you wish to learn what an "Intent URI" is and how to use one be prepared to learn some Android Code and you can start here:
http://www.damonkohler.com/2009/02/android-recipes.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

The most common intents that are easily explained are shortcuts: examples: one click shortcut causes the phone to dial a specific number, one click shortcut to compose a text message for a specific number, one click shortcut to compose an email.

Many of the above are easily implemented already. But, one can also create more elaborate intents. This block is for persons who know how to write those intents to be able to create their own "shortcut" to whatever they can code.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

Eventually this functionality will be easier for people to use, maybe employing some copy/paste function or something... for now if you don't know how to use it (which I sure dont) then leave it out...

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Cuda1337 about 2 years ago

Shaneus, thank you for the information and valuable links. Upon reading about intents, it doesn't sound extremely difficult. Basically just coding for specific things. I've just briefly read through those links, but let me run something past you guys. From what I can see an intent could just open an application, but why do that when you already have Apps icons you can just open from? However, what if you want to do something specific in an application? For instance, something I wanted to do, but could not really determine if it was possible...

I really like laying a google map on the homescreen. However, I find it very limiting that I can only scroll through the map while its on the desktop. What I'd really like to do is have the map take up about 3/4ths the screen and then make (an intent?) so that I can search for a specific address and tell the map to find that address. So essentially I am opening up the search function of google maps?

Perhaps I am totally misunderstanding what intents are designed to do and that may be possible after a long day at work. But if I'm not this sounds very exciting. Can someone confirm or deny my suspicions? Or even call me stupid, that works too :P

Thanks

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by sweeterhome about 2 years ago

Hello. These are good questions, and as Lemon said, a future release should make ActionBlocks much more user friendly and more broad in scope. For now, there are basically two things you can do with them:
  • Launch a URL. You can put a regular url here, like http://www.sweeterskins.net/, and it will launch when you click it
  • Launch a specific activity of an app. The Sweeter Home main page launches the theme browser in this way. It is very tricky to determine what URI to use, though, since you need to know a bit about the internals of the apps you want to deal with.

Unfortunately you can't launch a map directions search now, but that sort of thing would be totally reasonable in the future when this functionality is more hashed out.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by genei09 about 2 years ago

Could it be used to switch to a specific screen in sweeter home?

Like if on the Top Screen I wanted to put my multi media widgets there. Could I make an ActionBlock that when pressed would cause a move to the Top Screen from the Main Screen or even something odd like the Right Screen?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by genei09 about 2 years ago

That's great! I've got a theme idea that would take advantage of that...I just don't know the syntax of it would work.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by jonkyu about 2 years ago

I was curious about this aswell, Is that how you got those animation to work in your THRILLHO video Lemon?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by rtaylor692 about 2 years ago

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to launch my gallery view on rotate or do you have to use this as a button?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

jonkyu wrote:

I was curious about this aswell, Is that how you got those animation to work in your THRILLHO video Lemon?

I'll answer that question today man...

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by ignatius about 2 years ago

Just had this thought when I was thinking...Meh, I have no need to get into the the 'Action scripting' type stuff... Could you use this function to jump between themes stored on your SD card? Say you have a theme for Work a theme for Travel and a default Theme. In this manner, if you had only three themes you would use regularly, you could embed a 'jump' to theme 2 in theme 1, and a 'jump' to theme 3 in theme 2 and finally a 'jump' to theme 1 inside of the build of theme 3. If you could, Im about to dive head first into reading up on this stuff. Hopefully someone will beat me to it and put out a tutorial.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

Not sure about SD card - sure it's possible but I wouldn't want to start - BUT you should be able to link directly to a theme on the server - or anywhere on the internet for that matter.

Let's say you Save all your themes to SD card and upload them to dropbox for example. Get the direct link (like http://test.com/example/ignatiusthemes/mytheme.slx) and change the protocol to sweeterhome://

Also you can link directly to the Sweeter Home server location for your theme using the following:

PC - http://ws.sweeterhome.com/themes/content/*YourUserName*/*ThemeName*.slx
Phone - sweeterhome://ws.sweeterhome.com/themes/content/*YourUserName*/*ThemeName*.slx

Switching like that sounds like a very cool idea - and I have a cool concept around this I'll unleash in the future...

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by ignatius about 2 years ago

Hey thanks Lemon. Stellar tip as always. The obvious solution would be the best solution hahaha. Still interested to see where this Advanced tab could take sweeter home themes in the future. Suppose we just have to wait and see what people much smarter than I will do with it.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by overcomer88 about 2 years ago

Well what exactly is the format that the input field takes? I'm trying to launch the phone dialer by using the ACTION_CALL_BUTTON intent. I've tried everything from putting the Java code to declare a new object from the Intent class and then invoke the startActivity() method, just putting the string value for ACTION_CALL_BUTTON ("android.intent.action.CALL_BUTTON"). I mean what's the syntax needed here? Is it just the Java method for the Intent URI? Could it be that the intent isn't working because the Droid doesn't have a physical call button?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by viciouscircle about 2 years ago

Lemon wrote:

jonkyu wrote:

I was curious about this aswell, Is that how you got those animation to work in your THRILLHO video Lemon?

I'll answer that question today man...

Did you answer this yet? I'm also very very curious as to how you got the trays to animate when they opened... Fiddling with the animation timing settings didn't seem to do anything when I tried it.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by aprince666 about 2 years ago

Could this be used to hide/show the notification bar? That is the best feature of Home++ and would LOVE to see it happen with SM

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by shaneaus about 2 years ago

I posted a feature request in the Issues page of this website requesting being able to modify/move the notification bar quite awhile back.

Just keep in mind that the Dev has done an ENORMOUS amount of work on this in the last few months. Now he is working on cleaning up the bugs that are being generated from the public beta. Be on the lookout for an update soon.

Once these bugs are addressed he will start work on some more feature requests. Being able to move the notification bar was the ONLY thing I missed from Home++. So, hopefully, that will be added later.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

jonkyu wrote:

I was curious about this aswell, Is that how you got those animation to work in your THRILLHO video Lemon?

http://www.sweeterhome.com/projects/sweethome/wiki/Animation_Time

:)

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by viciouscircle about 2 years ago

Lemon, Thanks for the animation info! Works great. Now a question... I see that you mention that using a springblock is preferred. Why is this? Does it use less resources that way? and if so, there would be no way to use an animation with a springblock? I'm not sure I exactly understand what you say when you say, "If you have a springboard icon in your Custom Tray consider using a Springboard block instead. Springboard block usage is preferred over springboarding from Custom Trays". Are you saying there that even though we can use the animation, it'd be better not to use the feature that allows the animation?

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

So I've logged a feature request to have the Animation enabled in a Springboard widget block.

Functionally the only time you would ever need to put a springboard icon in a Custom Tray is if you want it to scroll with some other shortcuts in there too. If all you have is a custom tray with 1 springboard icon in it, then Springblocks are preferred for this reason as they're much simpler to set up, and edit, and you don't have to worry about embedding and locking and all that shit.

In fact we discussed removing springboard icons all together except there is ONE application where they are the other solution - and that's setting up multiple springboards which don't fit the 16x16 grid... but that is probably only something power-users would worry about.

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by jonkyu about 2 years ago

Lemon wrote:

jonkyu wrote:

I was curious about this aswell, Is that how you got those animation to work in your THRILLHO video Lemon?

http://www.sweeterhome.com/projects/sweethome/wiki/Animation_Time

:)

Awesome thanks for the documentation, great start!

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by genei09 about 2 years ago

Syntax example

I snagged this from the default theme the app loads with. It launches the dialer

#Intent;component=com.android.contacts/.DialtactsActivity;end

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by Lemon about 2 years ago

That's a little redundant for us since we can launch the dialer using an app shortcut anyway... but good to see the syntax. As above this is only really useful if you know the inner working of an app already...

RE: Launching Applications via {Action -- Advanced...is this possible? - Added by genei09 about 2 years ago

redundant yes, but overcomer88 did specifically ask for the syntax for this exact action.

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