Question

I’m trying to get my main activity to be the launcher activity and also receive send events. Somehow I can’t seem to make both work same time. Either I have the launcher icon in the app tray but then not in image share menu in from gallery for example. How can I make both work at the same time.

With this intent filter the icon is in app tray but not in share menu.

         <intent-filter>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
        </intent-filter>

With this one I have it in the share but not in app tray

        <intent-filter>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
            <data android:mimeType="image/*" />
        </intent-filter>

I suspect it has something to do with the data element and I tried this but it didn’t work

        <intent-filter>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
               <data android:mimeType="image/*">
            </action>  
        </intent-filter>

Any help much appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

I found the solution. You can actually have more than one intent-filter tag in an action. So the right code was

        <intent-filter>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"/>
            <data android:mimeType="image/*"/>
        </intent-filter>