s wrote:
How can I cause my app to add a button to another app, the text
messaging app for instance?
You can't. If you could, that would be a serious security hole.
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What is meant is to add a menu button - or menu item - in another
application.
This is only possible if the hosting application explicitly provides
this possibility.
We do this in our OI applications, so that 3rd party applications can
add additional functionality on-the-fly... for example OI
So the stock applications absolutely cannot be modified? They do not
provide the possibility for menu additions?
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s wrote:
They do not provide the possibility for menu additions?
If you search the Android source code for addIntentOptions(), you'll
find few references.
Why this is, I have no idea.
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We have moved away from addIntentOptions() because allowing arbitrary items
to be added to the menu makes providing a decent UI very problematic.
Usually app menus are carefully structured to have the most important items
in the main menu, with less important ones in the secondary. Our preference
Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Our preference at this point is to have one menu item that
goes to another list of additional things that other apps can do.
Is this technique implemented in the current edition of any apps
distributed with Android?
If so, and if we're not to use addIntentOptions(), how
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:
Is this technique implemented in the current edition of any apps
distributed with Android?
Sure, for the share button, and everywhere else you get an activity picker
to perform an operation.
If so, and if we're not
Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Sure, for the share button, and everywhere else you get an activity
picker to perform an operation.
OK, I'm apparently being dense. It won't be the first time...
I've never seen a share button anywhere in Android. There is a share
page menu choice in Browser, but a
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:
I've never seen a share button anywhere in Android. There is a share
page menu choice in Browser, but a quick survey of other built-in apps
that I use show neither a share button nor a share menu choice. Perhaps
I use
Another way to put oneself into a built-in Android app, albeit only
into the Launcher, is by implementing the ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT.
(Other more trivial possibilities are CATEGORY_INFO for the Market
app, and CATEGORY_LAUNCHER for the Launcher app)
Yet another possibility is to implement the
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