Search code examples
androidandroid-activityandroid-intentintentfilter

How to exclude my own Activity from Activity.startActivity(Intent) chooser?

My app works with pictures. It can take multiple pictures as an input, process them, and send them again to another app.

As a consequence, my main Activity has declared an intent filter on ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE for image/* mimetypes and can result in issuing a new Intent with the same action and data type using Activity.startActivity(Intent).

Is there a way to exclude my own activity from the list of apps that is displayed to the user after the startActivity() call ?

Solution

  • Not directly, AFAIK. However, you could create your own chooser using PackageManager and queryIntentActivityOptions(), which does allow for filtering yourself (or other things) out.