How to start Google Assistant programmatically?

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I have tried every simple combo I have found but not sure how to do this. I even tried to simulate the home long press but you get google now voice, lookint at logcat it shows this

com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/com.google.android.apps.gsa.staticplugins.opa.OpaActivity

but not sure if this is what I am looking for or how to replicate it.

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 29 '17 at 22:04

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This works:

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VOICE_COMMAND).setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK));

edited Apr 29 '17 at 22:04

Maria Ines Parnisari

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answered Apr 29 '17 at 21:27

yausername

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Can you ask question along with the intent ACTION_VOICE_COMMAND? – Junior Usca Nov 30 '18 at 20:15

Brady Boettcher · Answer 2 · 2016-12-05T20:59:27.080

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So I've been trying to do the same thing, and just discovered something when I'm trying to launch the Assistant with an Intent like this:

Intent launchIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        launchIntent.setPackage("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox");
        launchIntent.setClassName("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox", "com.google.android.apps.gsa.staticplugins.opa.OpaActivity");
startActivity(launchIntent);

Although this doesn't throw an ActivityNotFoundException, it does throw a Permission Denial. This is shown to happen because Google Assistant must be launched from the googlequicksearchbox package from above. Hopefully this will change when/if they release an API for it. Fingers crossed.

edited Dec 05 '16 at 20:59

answered Dec 05 '16 at 20:45

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Yes, i tried that already. You can bypass that with ROOT. and it works just fine but requires root. – Chop Labalagun Dec 06 '16 at 21:08
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`com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox` is not Google Assistant. Its the Google app. – Roshana Pitigala Jul 18 '19 at 08:32

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