android - No Activity found to handle Intent

Question

i am attempting to launch an intent to open a link to the android market.

android manifest portion looks like this:

<activity android:name="com.surreall.sixdice.Start" android:label="Six Dice" android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />                               
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />  
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

launching the intent looks like:

public void onClick(View v) {
    String PublisherID = "pub:surreallgames";
    Uri marketUri = Uri.parse("market://search?q="+PublisherID);
    Intent marketIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, marketUri);                    
    startActivity(marketIntent);
}

logcat output:

06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=market://search?q=pub:surreallgames }
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1409)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1379)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2827)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:2933)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at com.surreall.sixdice.Start$9.onClick(Start.java:265)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
06-17 17:38:47.393: E/AndroidRuntime(476):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

You are running this code on an Android environment that lacks the Google Play Store, such as an emulator, Kindle Fire, etc.

If you are encountering this on an emulator, test this code path on a device that has the Play Store.

If you are encountering this on some piece of hardware that lacks the Play Store, or if you are planning on distributing your app to devices that lack the Play Store, either handle the exception or use PackageManager and resolveActivity() to determine if your Intent will succeed before calling startActivity().

if(intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null)
    startActivityForResult(intent, 0);
else
    ...