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Custom App Launch

Corinne Boyle
Updated

An Android app can be launched after an event trigger by providing the package name in the launch app action.

Custom intents can be launched by providing the data required for the Android Intent. Supported data includes:

Name Example Description
action android.intent.action.VIEW The Android action to perform.
data http://www.example.com/ Data to provide for the action. (optional)
category android.intent.category.LAUNCHER The category of the event. (optional)
package com.android.chrome The package name for the Intent handling class. (optional)
type text/plain Content type of the data. (optional)

Extra intent data is application specific. Data names must not contain dots. Extra intent data is automatically added prefixed with android.intent.extra.. For example, TEXT will add android.intent.extra.TEXT to the extras of the intent.

Example for launching Chrome to display web page

Custom

action android.intent.action.VIEW
data http://www.example.com/
package com.android.chrome

 

Example for printing using QuickPrinter

Custom

action pe.diegoveloper.printing
type text/plain

Extras

TEXT <BIG>Text Title<BR>Testing <BIG>BIG<BR><BIG><BOLD>string <SMALL> text<BR><LEFT>Left aligned<BR><CENTER>Center aligned<BR><UNDERLINE>underline text<BR><QR>12345678<BR><CENTER>QR: 12345678<BR>Line<BR><LINE><BR>Double Line<BR><DLINE><BR><CUT>

 

Resuming digital signage

The resume delay will be used to automatically restart DS Loader and the configured digital signage player software after a period of time.

For more flexibility, the custom app could manually launch DS Loader. This can be be achieved by adding the following Android intent to the custom app:

Intent launchIntent = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("net.targetr.stacks.central");
startActivity(launchIntent);

 

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