Question

I’d like to register an intent filter so that the “View work address” action in the People app can launch my app – but what is that intent ?

Answer 1

After searching all day through the Contacts source code, I came up with the following solution:

1. go to the Google market and install “Intent Intercept”
2. capture the data. In this case it looks like this:

Action: android.intent.action.VIEW

Data: content://com.android.contacts/data/1425

Uri: content://com.android.contacts/data/1425

Type: null

3 activities match this intent:

com.telenav.app.android.sprint

com.google.android.apps.maps

uk.co.ashtonbrsc.android.intentintercept

I then went to the documentation to find out what I should have gotten…

http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html

As you can imagine, I was shocked not to see a “geo” scheme used. (which explains why I couldn’t find the geo URI in the source code).

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EDIT: I am trying to implement the app’s intent-filter; it’s not so easy to hack this…

this works – but it also captures intents other than “View work address” (which is not good)

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

            <data android:mimeType="*/*" android:scheme="content" android:host="com.android.contacts" />

        </intent-filter>

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EDIT 2: this is the best intent-filter I can come up with for this scenario

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/*" android:host="com.android.contacts" />
        </intent-filter>

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EDIT 3: I can do better … this is the EXACT intent filter to use

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/*" android:host="com.android.contacts" android:pathPrefix="/data" android:scheme="content"/>
        </intent-filter>