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So I have a completely separate application and I would like to have the
option for the user to collect data with the ODK Collect app. (it is
assumed the that user already has ODK collect installed) I think im
missing something. I have also tried to look through the code for ODK
tables because I know that the two app talk back and forth. I really just
want to call ODK. Im not worried about returning back into my app.

This intent does not work.

Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER");
intent.setClassName("org.odk.collect.android","org.odk.collect.android.activities.FormManagerList");
startActivity(intent);

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Never mind I figured it out, it should be as the following.

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
PackageManager manager = getPackageManager();
i = manager.getLaunchIntentForPackage("org.odk.collect.android");
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
startActivity(i);

ยทยทยท On Friday, January 24, 2014 3:01:55 PM UTC-5, Jon Nordling wrote: > > So I have a completely separate application and I would like to have the > option for the user to collect data with the ODK Collect app. (it is > assumed the that user already has ODK collect installed) I think im > missing something. I have also tried to look through the code for ODK > tables because I know that the two app talk back and forth. I really just > want to call ODK. Im not worried about returning back into my app. > > This intent does not work. > > Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"); > > intent.setClassName("org.odk.collect.android","org.odk.collect.android.activities.FormManagerList"); > startActivity(intent); >
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Hi Jon, thank you for posting your own answer, I'm about to start something very similar.
do you by any chance know how to instruct ODK Collect about opening a specific form?

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