Communication with App Detail Settings using Titanium Intent

[beppo-ivel]

I want to open the app details- or permission-settings by confirming a alert dialog. If I try to start the intent Ti.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(intent); I get an error msg as you can see below. What is wrong with my intent definition?

views/index.xml

<Alloy>
	<Window class="container">
		<Label id="label" onClick="doClick">Hello, World</Label>
	</Window>
	<AlertDialog id="locationPermissionDialog" onClick="clickLocaionPermissionDialog" />
</Alloy>

styles/index.tss

"#locationPermissionDialog": {
  message : 'Enable location permission to get this app to work.',
  cancel: 1,
  buttonNames: ['Confirm', 'Cancel'],
  title : 'Permission Required'
}

controllers/index.js

function doClick(e) {
	alert($.label.text);
}


if (OS_ANDROID) {
	$.index.addEventListener('open', function() {
		// When we are asked to create the TabGroup Action Bar menu
		if (!Ti.Geolocation.hasLocationPermissions()) {
			//Ti.API.error(Ti.App.id);
			$.locationPermissionDialog.show();
		}
	});
}
$.index.open();


function clickLocaionPermissionDialog(e) {
  if (e.index === e.source.cancel) {
    return;
  }

  let intent = Ti.Android.createIntent({
    action : 'android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS',
    data : 'package:' + Ti.App.id
  });
  //flags = [Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK, Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY, Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS];
  intent.addFlags(Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
  Ti.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(intent);
//$.index.startActivity(intent);
}

[ERROR] TiExceptionHandler: (main) [7862,8936] /alloy/controllers/index.js:87
[ERROR] TiExceptionHandler: Ti.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(intent);
[ERROR] TiExceptionHandler: ^
[ERROR] TiExceptionHandler: Error: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS dat=package:beppo.ivel }
[ERROR] TiExceptionHandler: at AlertDialog.clickLocaionPermissionDialog (/alloy/controllers/index.js:87:32)

[m1ga]

click on the window:

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow();
win.open();
win.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
	var intent = Ti.Android.createIntent({
		action: 'android.settings.APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS',
		data: "package:" + Ti.App.id
	});

	intent.addFlags(Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
	Ti.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(intent);
});

[beppo-ivel]

You mean I should create my own popup window? But then I also want to start the intent by click on certain button and not a window in general. Would you mind to explain your idea in more details. Or should I execute your code after confirmation of my alert-box and trigger an additional click event, which belongs to your window?

BTW: Where can I find the correct property-strings, because android.provider.Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS seems to be wrong? And is there a property string which points direcetly to app-permission panel?

[m1ga]

sorry, I'm very confused 🤣 I've just created a simpler example to show you how to open the settings page.Without Alloy so its quicker to test and the dialog + permission request is not really part of the real question so I left it out. You can use the inner code from the click even in your example too.

About the action: where did you get the string from? I've looked it up in the google docs: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings#ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS. And there it says Constant Value: "android.settings.APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS"

[beppo-ivel]

I get your point. The problem was the intent property action string. Sry for he question.