Android Question Defaul app

[LucaMs]

Someone asked me a question that I can not answer, so I reply here (it was on the Italian Forum).

Is there a way to set an app (of course that we developed) as the "default app" for a specific "service" (Intent)?

What they would want to get, then, is what you get in Windows with double-click on a specific file type: "Open" instead of "Open with..."

 

[Erel]

Only the user can set the default app. You can however use an intent filter to tell the OS that your app supports a specific intent and should appear in the list of relevant apps.

This example shows how you can catch SMS messages with a service: Intent Filters - Intercepting SMS messages in the background

There are other intents that work with activities instead. Activity.GetStartingIntent will return the intent that caused the activity to be resumed.

 

[LucaMs]

Only the user can set the default app. You can however use an intent filter to tell the OS that your app supports a specific intent and should appear in the list of relevant apps.

This example shows how you can catch SMS messages with a service: Intent Filters - Intercepting SMS messages in the background

There are other intents that work with activities instead. Activity.GetStartingIntent will return the intent that caused the activity to be resumed.

I know that thread and I imagined that it was impossible to "pretend" to set our app as the default.

I'll post that link and this one, as a response.

Thank you, Erel