Android Override Explicit Intent

Question

My app needs to have a intent-filter that responds to a Intent that has it's component set (a explicit intent.) Here is a example.

Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.compareeverywhere","com.compareeverywhere.ScanActivity");
startActivity(i);

Just a simple intent-filter will not do - because the Intent is made for a specific component (Activity,) it just launches that without looking for intents at all. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks, Isaac Waller
P.S: Please don't reply "No."

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to achieve Isaac. Could you try and explain further what you need the Intent-Filter to do? — Reto Meier, Mar 08 '09 at 11:20

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '09 at 23:32

No.

:) That being said, imagine what would happen if Android allowed people to hijack Intents for specific components. Don't like a competitor's app? Just have yours hijack his main Activity with your own to display porn. Intents can specify specific components specifically because the authors don't want others to be able to replace them.

You have two options. If this is your own code, replace it with a generic intent, or if it belongs to someone else, contact them, and ask nicely for them to change it to a generic intent along with some good reasons why that is necessary.

Android Override Explicit Intent

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