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Android Intent to start Main activity of application

Asked 2012-06-14T20:25:49.850
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I am trying to start the main activity from inside a BroadcastReceiver. I dont want to supply the activity class name but to use the action and category for android to figure out the main activity.

It doesnt seem to work.

Sending Code:

Intent startIntent = new Intent();

startIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
startIntent.setPackage(context.getPackageName());
startIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);        
context.startActivity(startIntent);

I get this error:

Caused bt: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10000000 pkg=com.xyz.abc (has extras) }

Any ideas?

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this is not the right way to startActivity.
try this code instead:

Intent startIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
startIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);        
context.startActivity(startIntent);
answered 2012-06-14T20:37:10.013

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