Thanks for your help. Tried that with the following code: PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
PackageInfo pi; try { pi = pm.getPackageInfo("fm.smart", PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES); for (ActivityInfo a : pi.activities) { Log.d("PACKAGE-DEBUG", a.name); } pi = pm.getPackageInfo("android.speech", PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES); for (ActivityInfo a : pi.activities) { Log.d("PACKAGE-DEBUG", a.name); } } catch (NameNotFoundException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } and I get all my activities, but the android.speech call returns nothing on both emulator and phone, where my phone does support voice ... 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.Main 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.ListsList 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.ItemListActivity 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.CreateItemActivity 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.CreateExampleActivity 08-31 09:59:28.787: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.CreateSoundActivity 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.ShowItem 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.ItemActivity 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.PreferenceActivity 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.LoginActivity 08-31 09:59:28.797: DEBUG/PACKAGE-DEBUG(9408): fm.smart.activity.SignUpActivity 08-31 09:59:28.797: WARN/System.err(9408): android.content.pm.PackageManager$NameNotFoundException: android.speech 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ApplicationContext$ApplicationPackageManager.getPackageInfo (ApplicationContext.java:1503) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at fm.smart.Main.onCreate(Main.java:466) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java: 1123) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java: 2231) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java: 2284) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(ActivityThread.java:112) 08-31 09:59:28.807: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1692) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (ZygoteInit.java:782) 08-31 09:59:28.817: WARN/System.err(9408): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540) 08-31 09:59:28.827: WARN/System.err(9408): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) android.speech only includes a RecognizerIntent - so I wonder if I should be looking for Intents rather than activities - but maybe I just can't access package info of android.speech from my app ... On Aug 28, 9:04 am, "Roman ( T-Mobile USA)" <roman.baumgaert...@t- mobile.com> wrote: > You might want to look in the PackageManager class with which you can > retrieve installed packages/applications information. > > Look > athttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInfo... > (flag GET_ACTIVITIES). > > -- > Roman Baumgaertner > Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC > ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the > author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily > represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. > > On Aug 27, 7:10 pm,tansaku<tans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there some way to check the set of available activities? I want to > > check for the presence of android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH in > > order to disable buttons that will take the user to that function on > > phones that don't have the voice recognition support. > > > At the moment all I can tell is that I get the following exception: > > > android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle > > Intent { action=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE_SPEECH (has extras) } > > > Other posts on this list seem to suggest this exception can't be > > caught. Perhaps there is a base level Java way to determine if the > > library is available. > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > CHEERS> SAM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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