Launcher default apps intent opens wrong screen on HUAWEI Mate 10 Lite

[d4rken]

Android 8

This is the screen we get to:
Screenshot_20230821_191514

and this is the one where it can be changed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dIsi0q2Nes

The screen we need to get to is:

mResumedActivity: ActivityRecord{78697f6 u0 com.android.settings/.Settings$AppAndNotificationDashboardActivity t70}

Can debug this further if you give me source-code access. Really love your apps, would love to tweak little things for my workflow 🍻

[blipinsk]

Can debug this further if you give me source-code access. Really love your apps, would love to tweak little things for my workflow 🍻

I love your enthusiasm, but unfortunately, I'm not planning to open-source it (or introduce new developers to the project, even ones as awesome as you 😢).

I would love to tweak those things for you though! Those could be beneficial for the entire Android Dev Launcher community.

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So you're saying that you're seeing the incorrect screen after tapping Launcher button?
Can you help me check if there's a Settings.ACTION_<XYZ> value which represents the screen you're referring to?

[d4rken]

Can you help me check if there's a Settings.ACTION_ value which represents the screen you're referring to?

Which settings value are you currently using?

[blipinsk]

If it's Android 8, it should be Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_DEFAULT_APPS_SETTINGS.
We might be getting into some Huawei-specific behavior. I have tested this on multiple systems (I believe Android 8 as well) and it was working correctly.

[d4rken]

The intent suggested here works for me:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/54191831/1251958

Directly opens the default apps screen:
Screenshot_20230821_202822

What about:

• Check whether it's a Huawei device
• If so check if any apps can handle com.android.settings.PREFERRED_SETTINGS
• If yes send it (but catch Exceptions, there might be ActivityNotFound or SecurityException)
• If there is no such activity or an error happens, then fall back to the current intent.

[blipinsk]

Yes, I can totally do that. It actually fits with all my "fallback"-mechanisms quite well, I just need to add an isHuawei check.

Random question, is this your only Huawei device? Maybe you've got something with another OS version as well? I'd be mostly interested in:

• 7 or 9,
• 10+ (which is much more complex than just sending the ACTION_MANAGE_DEFAULT_APPS_SETTINGS)

[d4rken]

Random question, is this your only Huawei device? Maybe you've got something with another OS version as well? I'd be mostly interested in:

Unfortunately not, sorry. The only other Huawei device I currently have here runs Android 2.3 😁.

I've set your launcher already up on a few different ROM types (MIUI, OxygenOS etc.). So far this one was the only one that was problematic. If I find other I'll probably raise another issue ticket 🍻.

Offtopic too, FYI: There was one device, either a OnePlus Nord2 5G or Redmi A2, where ADB didn't have enough permissions to grant the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS. The device was rooted though, and that worked then. Not much you can do about that though 🤷