Question

My app relies heavily on a database for data and sometimes the database won’t copy correctly, gets corrupted, or just throws a generic strop. Clearing the app data and then reopening the app seems to work well, but it’s quite a chore to ask my users to dig through the settings pages, and I’m looking for a way to quickly get to the app details page (which shows the uninstall, move to SD, clear data etc.)

I’ve found the Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS Intent action but get an ActivityNotFoundException when I try to launch it as described on my Desire Z. Can anyone help me out how to properly sort this?

Thanks

EDIT: As noted in the answers, this is only API9 and above, the code I now use if anyone wants it is below. Believe it works on API3 and above.

try {

    Intent i = new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS);
    i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
    i.setData(Uri.parse("package:com.espian.formulae"));
    startActivity(i);

} catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) { 

    Intent i = new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_APPLICATIONS_SETTINGS);
    i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
    startActivity(i);

}

Answer 1

I’ll post it as answer here in addition to my comment. That intent is only available as of API Level 9 (2.3). The Desire Z doesn’t have 2.3… yet. 😉