Question

I’m not really sure what’s going on, but for some reason my SplashActivity is not being created on launch, even though I put the MAIN and LAUNCHER intent for it. Here’s my manifest:

    <application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

    <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.Splash" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

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

</application>

If I remove the second activity, then my SplashActivity is launched. But for some reason when the MainActivity is included, the Splash is ignored. Is it possible that having the activity name be MainActivity overrides whatever you set for your Launcher activity?

Update:

It seems everybody is suggesting something that I had already tried before posting this question so I think it’s better I mention it now before more people post the same suggestion 🙂

Unfortunately removing the intent on the MainActivity results in the following in my Console output:

[2012-10-11 22:58:44 - Test] ------------------------------
[2012-10-11 22:58:44 - Test] Android Launch!
[2012-10-11 22:58:44 - Test] adb is running normally.
[2012-10-11 22:58:44 - Test] Performing com.test.test.MainActivity activity launch
[2012-10-11 22:58:44 - Test] Automatic Target Mode: using device '9a03c386'
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] Application already deployed. No need to reinstall.
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] Starting activity com.test.test.MainActivity on device 9a03c386
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=com.test.test/.MainActivity }
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.test.test/.MainActivity } from null (pid=12510, uid=2000) not exported from uid 10132
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1327)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1281)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.startActivity(ActivityManagerNative.java:1728)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at com.android.commands.am.Am.runStart(Am.java:433)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at com.android.commands.am.Am.run(Am.java:107)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at com.android.commands.am.Am.main(Am.java:80)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.finishInit(Native Method)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:263)
[2012-10-11 22:58:45 - Test] ActivityManager: at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Don’t know what it means, but I have to assume it’s some kind of error.

Answer 1

The section

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

is used to let android know which activity to start when application starts.. Since you wrote it inside both of your activity, android takes second one as the starting activity..
So remove that line from .MainActivity block..

<activity
    android:name=".SplashActivity"
    android:label="@string/title_activity_main"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.Splash" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:label="whatever" >
</activity>

After Seeing OP’s edit

Have you seen this? Also after changing AndroidManifest.xml file, delete and reinstall the app once..