Launch Android app from SL4A script?

Question

I have in / sdcard / sl 4a / scripts / twitter.py

import android droid = android.Android() droid.launch('com.twitter.android') 

And if I run it in the console or in the background, it will immediately exit with code 1, and the log file is empty.

If there are other ways to run applications from a kind of script, I am open to suggestions. I know about Tasker, but it's better to write text scripts than use a wizard.

Answer 1

you can use startActivity for this:

  import android
 droid = android.Android ()
 droid.startActivity ('android.intent.action.MAIN', 
                     None, None, None, False, 
                     'com.twitter.android', 
                     'com.twitter.android.StartActivity'
                    ) 

see the syntax in the API Reference :

  startActivity (
    String action,
    String uri [optional],
    String type [optional]: MIME type / subtype of the URI,
    JSONObject extras [optional]: a Map of extras to add to the Intent,
    Boolean wait [optional]: block until the user exits the started activity,
    String packagename [optional]: name of package.  If used, requires classname to be useful,
    String classname [optional]: name of class.  If used, requires packagename to be useful)