SecurityException: Permission Denial if starting Activity from PreferenceScreen xml and having productFlavors with applicationId

Question

I have a preferences screen with an option to start one of my activities by definition like this

<Preference android:title="@string/account_details">
        <intent android:targetPackage="com.company.appname"
            android:targetClass="com.company.appname.activities.AccountDetailsActivity"/>
    </Preference>

The problem is since I added a product flavor in my grade file and gave it a applicationId the Activity start results in a java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent ...

Is it possible to solve it without android:exported="true"?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Just remove absolute packages, change:

com.company.appname.activities.AccountDetailsActivity

to

.activities.AccountDetailsActivity

Some info: What's the "dot" for when registering an Activity

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 17 '16 at 12:37

Rafal Zawadzki

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This works only for the Manifest. Here it leads to a ActivityNotFoundException. – georgij Nov 17 '16 at 13:27

SecurityException: Permission Denial if starting Activity from PreferenceScreen xml and having productFlavors with applicationId

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