Pragmatically set Intent Categories - Home Button Action

Question

I have an app that has intent filters set to CategoryHome and CategoryDefault

[IntentFilter
  (
    new[] 
    { 
      Intent.ActionMain 
    }, 
    Categories = new[] 
    {
      Intent.CategoryHome, 
      Intent.CategoryDefault 
    }
  )
]

    public class MainActivity : Activity
...

Is it possible to change this on the fly?

Answer 1

Pragmatically set Intent Categories - Home Button Action

You can't do this directly, but you could disable/enable particular Activities of your app. So you could have your Home app as disabled by default, then if a user wanted to use it, they could enable it programmatically.

You could refer to CommonsWare's answer :

You can neither enable, disable, or create <intent-filter> s programmatically.

However, in your case, you only have one <intent-filter> per component. In that case, you can enable and disable the component programmatically, via PackageManager and setComponentEnabledSetting() . In your case, enabling or disabling the activity would have the same basic effect as enabling or disabling its <intent-filter> .

Other useful link :

• Android: Can I enable/disable an activity's intent filter programmatically?

• How can I configure Launcher activity programmatically in android?