Glance widget actionStartActivity not working properly

Question

I am trying to implement a glance widget and start an activity while clicking on a button. But it seems like it's not working properly for me. This is my code:

 DistributionDateView(context, deliveryDates, postalCode) {
                println("it should work i think")
                actionStartActivity(AddParcelManuallyActivity.newIntent(context = context))
                actionStartActivity<AddParcelManuallyActivity>()
                actionStartActivity(AddParcelManuallyActivity::class.java)
}

Where DistributionDateView has a onclick. I have tried 3 different ways, "it should work I think" is printing in the logs... but nothing is happening. What am I doing wrong here.

Answer 1

actionStartActivity is just return a object of interface StartActivityAction. It should be used in some glance function. It is not an alternative of context.startActivity which is a function.

//source code in package androidx.glance
fun GlanceModifier.clickable(onClick: Action): GlanceModifier =
    this.then(ActionModifier(onClick))

//source code in package androidx.glance
@Composable
fun Button(
    text: String,
    onClick: Action,
    modifier: GlanceModifier = GlanceModifier,
    enabled: Boolean = true,
    style: TextStyle? = null,
    colors: ButtonColors = ButtonDefaults.buttonColors(),
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
)

and one example is

@Composable
fun MyContent() {
    Image(
        provider = provider,
        modifier = GlanceModifier
            .clickable(actionStartActivity<MainActivity>()),
        contentDescription = ""
    )
}