This introduces a new Uri form of Intent with an "intent:" scheme, and a
corresponding update to the parser to handle these, so that the browser
can use this generic facility for starting activities based on the links
that are clicked and allow for web pages to link to arbitrary intents.
There is also a new "package" field on Intent which allows you to limit
the components it finds to a given package. This replaces the new method
that was added to PackageManger for doing this when resolving activities,
and implements it for all Intent queries against the package manager.
Create a new public IntentSender class that can be used by PackageManager instead.
This new class uses IIntentSender internally and can only be created by PendingIntent for now.
Provide a new getIntentSender api in PendingIntent to create an instance of this class.
Move IIntentSender and IIntentReceiver from android.app to android.content
Change imports of IIntentSender and IIntentReceiver to reflect the new package name
The PackageManager api has been named as freeStorageWithIntent and will be renamed as freeStorage
once the older api(which has been deprecated) will be removed shortly.
This was required because we need a way to set the preferred activity for a
particular intent filter based on user selection (in our case the
ACTION_WEB_SEARCH intent filter for selecting the preferred search engine from
the list of available search engines providers). The current
addPreferredActivity call was not sufficient since it leaves the existing
preferred activities in the list and does not remove them, which this call
does.
You can now use android:testOnly="true" to not allow your .apk to be installed
as a normal app. The only way to do so is with the pm command and giving the
-t option, which sets a new INSTALL_ALLOW_TEST flag when installing.
I also used this to clean up the install API... actually, mostly to hide
it, since it is not accessible to apps so shouldn't be in the SDK. We
will be doing some more work on it, so this will prevent adding yet
another backwards-compatibility-for-no-reason version.
