What is the exhaustive list of all “android.intent.action” actions available in the Android SDK?

Question

Hi fellows,

I\'d like to know if there is some exhaustive reference of all Intent actions defined in the standard Android SDK ? I\'m thinking of the full \"android.inten

Answer 1

I'd like to know if there is some exhaustive reference of all Intent actions defined in the standard Android SDK ?

No.

For those who believe all Intent actions are aliased in the Intent class (I was one of them until very recently) I have at least one action which is not : android.intent.action.HDMI_PLUG (defined in media/java/android/media/AudioService.java) and I believe there are many others.

If it is not in the SDK, there is no guarantee that it will exist on any given version of Android (past/present/future) or on any given device (given manufacturers' ability to change non-SDK elements). Specifically in this case, there is no AudioService in the Android SDK and there is no HDMI_PLUG action in the Android SDK.

Answer 2

Hey I think I answered my own question :)

In my Android SDK directory, under /platforms/android-x/data (x being the API level) I've found several very interesting files:

• activity_actions.txt
• broadcast_actions.txt
• categories.txt
• features.txt
• widgets.txt

Turns out the first two contain plenty of raw Intents, including ones that are not defined in Intent.java !

I'm not quite sure what theses lists are here for, I'd just like to be sure they are exhaustive for their API level... (even if I don't see why they wouldn't be)

Answer 3

No, at least I have not found an exhaustive list and have been looking for one. I was looking for all of the NFC related Intents (e.g. ACTION_NDEF_DISCOVERED, ACTION_TECH_DISCOVERED, ...). It seems like the developer.android.com documentation is all piece-meal. What I mean is that there is hardly any 'definitive' sections on anything. A little bit frustrating. (But that's just my opinion).

Answer 4

If there is any exhaustive list, it'd be here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html starting at "Standard Activity Actions".