Jaikishan Jalan wrote: > I read the docs but could not really understand DEFAULT category. Can > you please explain what is the difference between - HOME and DEFAULT > Category?
Heh. I can try. The docs say that HOME is "the first activity that is displayed when the device boots". In other words, that's for the Launcher itself. The definition of DEFAULT seems to be somewhat inconsistent in the current SDK documentation. On the one hand, it is described as "the default action (center press) to perform on a piece of data", yet it is used in the ApiDemos only for the main activity, and elsewhere in the Intent documentation it is shown sprinkled in pretty much every intent-filter they have. The key for categories and intent-filter elements seem to be: when in doubt, list anything that might match. You are penalized for not having the right category, by not getting the Intents you expect. You are NOT penalized for having too many -- if the Intent only matches some of what your filter wants, that's perfectly fine. You might try tossing in DEFAULT into your intent-filter, and maybe LAUNCHER too, and see what happens. And, if we're lucky, hackbod or somebody will let us know the actual category we're supposed to be filtering upon. The only tutorial I'm seeing that spells it out, over on anddev.org, is from January, meaning it would be on the previous version of the SDK, so it might have changed in M5. And, as an aside to anyone writing documentation for Android core or third-party components: if you are going to broadcast Intents that you expect others to pick up, please document BOTH the action AND the category, not just the action. If not, those of us trying to receive your Intent will have to guess, and, as a result, might be eaten by a grue. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Warescription: All titles, revisions, & ebook formats, just $35/year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
