Peter - I agree completely. OpenIntents is a great idea, but it doesn't fix my problem either.
The strangeness is not just limited to the lack of a discovery API. There's also a peculiar lack of documentation on what the built-in apps can do, leaving us wasting a lot of time poking about making up intents by experiment. My hope is that both of these - intent discovery APIs and better docs on the existing intents - are in the plan, just not done yet. Richard On Jan 30, 5:29 pm, Peter Jeffe <pje...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 30, 10:45 am, Peli <peli0...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > For this reason, we have created the OpenIntents intents > > registry:http://www.openintents.org/en/http://www.openintents.org/en/intentstable > > > Even if there is a way to find all intents supported by an > > application, this will not tell you what kind of extras are supported > > or required or which result (if at all) is returned. > > I think your site is great Peli, I agree with your reasoning and > applaud your efforts. Unfortunately in this case I'm interested in > invoking the Amazon MP3 app, and no one has registered it on > OpenIntents, so I was trying to discover anything I could about it. > > I think it is very strange that Android has this nice concept of apps > registering the services that they provide, but there's no means for > other apps to discover what services are provided. Is it just me, or > does anyone else think this really limits the usefulness of this > feature? > > -- Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
