How to launch an Activity from another Application in Android

Question

I want to launch an installed package from my Android application. I assume that it is possible using intents, but I didn\'t find a way of doing it. Is there a link, where t

Answer 1

I found the solution. In the manifest file of the application I found the package name: com.package.address and the name of the main activity which I want to launch: MainActivity The following code starts this application:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.package.address","com.package.address.MainActivity"));
startActivity(intent);