We deliberately don't send this broadcast to an app when it is first
installed (as of cupcake you -will- get the broadcast when being updated
from a previous install). It is generally up to the user to launch your app
when they want to.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, erictcr...@gmail.com <erictcr...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe the following code may help.
>
> put the folling in your AndroidManifest.xml as a child of your
> Application tag
>
> <receiver android:name="com.ericcrook.InstallReceiver"
> android:enabled="true">
> <intent-filter>
> <action
> android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" /
> >
> <data android:scheme="package" />
> </intent-filter>
> </receiver>
>
>
> Then create a class that extends BroadcastReceiver, and use it's
> onReceive method to start your activity
>
>
> public class InstallReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
>
> public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
>
> String data = intent.getDataString();
>
> if (data.equals("package:com.ericcrook.InstallReceiver")) {
> //Start your application using startActivity or whatever is
> appropriate for
> //your project
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> I'm not very good with the Intent system, so some of this may be
> correct, but hopefully this is better than nothing.
>
> On Jun 16, 6:21 am, Raj <lal.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to start my application just after it gets installed on the
> > device. Is there any way out in Android to do so.
> > I was wondering if there is any receiver to get informed on package
> > installed.
> > Regards
>
> >
>
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Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com
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