> The strangeness is not just limited to the lack of a discovery API.

What I'm trying to say is, even if they were discovery APIs they would
be of limited use, because they could never tell you which extras you
have to use, what they mean, and how to interpret the result.

The only thing that can help you is better documentation.

> 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.

For built-in apps, you can always look into the source code to see
what their intents expect:
http://android.git.kernel.org/
(see platform/packages/...)

For some applications, the developers update their intents themselves
already at OpenIntents.org and document them over there. See e.g.
http://www.openintents.org/en/node/94

Some intents are frequently asked for, so that we have small code
snippets:
http://www.openintents.org/en/node/121

If you use undocumented intents by closed source applications that the
developer did not publish information about, chances are the developer
may change the intents anytime, so your application could break if you
use their intents...

Is there a specific application you would like to know more
information about?

Peli
www.openintents.org

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