Problems with starting an Android activity from Qt

[pga4711]

Hello,

I have a small camera project with an activity that starts the "oem-camera-app" and receives a file-uri. I am trying to start the activity in a C++-function called startCamera() in mainwindow.cpp.

But i get exceptions and errors like:

F art     : art/runtime/java_vm_ext.cc:470] JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: JNI GetStaticMethodID called with pending exception android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=com.vmi.cameratester.StartCameraActivity }
F art     : art/runtime/java_vm_ext.cc:470]   at void android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(int, java.lang.Object) (Instrumentation.java:1816)

The problem is that i don not know how to start the android-activity in a good way. When i print the activity that Qt lives in it says: org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity. But i dont know if that is OK. I tried to change org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings in AndroidManifest.xml to for example com.vmi.cameratester but then i got "broken pipe" errors if i remember right.

    QAndroidJniObject mainActivity = QtAndroid::androidActivity();

    //When to use this pm?
    QAndroidJniObject pm = mainActivity.callObjectMethod("getPackageManager",
                                                                 "()Landroid/content/pm/PackageManager;");
    if (mainActivity.isValid())
    {
        QAndroidJniObject gotClass = mainActivity.callObjectMethod("getClass", "()Ljava/lang/Class;");
        QAndroidJniObject gotClassName = gotClass.callObjectMethod("getName", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
        qDebug()<<"This is mainActivity classname: " << gotClassName.toString();

        //How to write these param:s correct?
        QAndroidJniObject param1 = QAndroidJniObject::fromString("com.vmi.cameratester");
        QAndroidJniObject param2 = QAndroidJniObject::fromString("com.vmi.cameratester.StartCameraActivity");

        QAndroidJniObject intent2("android/content/Intent", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", param2.object<jstring>());

        if (intent2.isValid())
        {
                qDebug()<<"intent2 is valid";
                mainActivity.callMethod<void>("startActivity","(Landroid/content/Intent;)V",intent2.object<jobject>());  //The problem might be here
        }
        else
        {
            qDebug()<<"intent2 is not valid";
        }
}

Someone who know how to start the activity StartCameraActivity in a good way? And i also want to receive the file-uri to Qt, but thats a latter problem i think.

[jsulm]

@pga4711 I'm not an Android expert, but doesn't your app need the access right to use the camera? Did you set this in the manifest file?

[pga4711]

@jsulm
Yes that's right, it is necessary. Thank you. I thought i added persmissions for a week ago, but i might have deleted it when i was fiddling with the AndroidManifest.xml and build.gradle and support-librariy-issues.

But the issues with starting activities and doing intents right persist. :/
Hmm, for example, as i understood it, you could prepare your intents in a lot of ways. Like directly in the Intent-constructor, or with setClassName(...). And when my activities are in totally different packages things will be more complex. I think my app starts with org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity and then i would like to do an intent to com.vmi.cameratester.StartCameraActivity.