No Activity found to handle Intent with action and data

Question

I have written two different Android applications.

I wish for one application to create an intent and in turn, start an activity in the other application.

The first application which creates the intent has the following code:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction("com.example.printtest.ACTION_PRINT");

Uri.Builder builder = new Uri.Builder();
builder.scheme("PrintAPI")
                .authority("StartPrintJob")
                .appendQueryParameter("appId", "aaa");
Uri uri = builder.build();
intent.setData(uri);

startActivity(intent);

The second application which I want to receive the intent has the following defined in it's manifest:

<activity android:name=".PrintActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.example.printtest.ACTION_PRINT"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

From what I understand, the activity in the second application should be recognized as the one to start this intent. However, the same exception is thrown each time. The exception being thrown is:

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main 
Process: com.example.myapp, PID: 21665
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=com.example.printtest.ACTION_PRINT dat=PrintAPI://StartPrintJob?appId=aaa }

Is there something that I'm missing? Is it valid to start an activity in another application just by setting action and data on an intent?

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

can you update your question with exception that you are getting? — Amod Gokhale, Oct 23 '17 at 14:23

keshav · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-23T15:01:43.887

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You forgot to add data part

<activity android:name=".PrintActivity"
        android:exported="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.example.printtest.ACTION_PRINT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <data android:scheme="PrintAPI"></data>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

edited Oct 23 '17 at 15:01

answered Oct 23 '17 at 14:24

keshav

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Unforunately adding `android:exported="true"` doesn't seem to have made any difference. – James Warner Oct 23 '17 at 14:32
@JamesNWarner check by adding data in intent-filter like updated answer. – keshav Oct 23 '17 at 15:02
Adding data has fixed the issue. Thanks! – James Warner Oct 23 '17 at 15:05

No Activity found to handle Intent with action and data

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