That is like the oft encountered case on the desktop where you click to open an unknown file type and the system prompts you what application to use. However, how is a user expected to know what activity is to be called? That is an internal design detail. In a traditional system where there is tighter coupling, this ambiguity would not arise. Perhaps the Android guys can enlighten us?
Anil On Dec 15, 2:05 pm, Dmaxi <robert.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think this is the case when the "Complete action using" dialog > appears with all the matching activities. The user has to choose one > of them and also can mark the choosen one as default handler in future > cases. > > Robert > > Anil wrote: > > ok, thanks! I see that for action VIEW, the type fields are different. > > But in general, back to my question > > What if an intent matches two or more activities - how is it resolved? > > Since Android is meant to be very loosely coupled, it is likely that > > activities from different applications may match the same intent. > > Traditional systems are more tightly coupled. > > - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
