ChooserActivity limits initial intents to 2 since API 29

[TWiStErRob]

Documented: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent#EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS

You can choose up to two additional activities to show before the app suggestions (the limit of two additional activities starts in Android 10).

Code: com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity#MAX_EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS = 2.

No mention at:

• https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/behavior-changes-all
• https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/behavior-changes-10

Potential solutions:

• remove hand-labeled chooser in favor of multiple buttons (or a popup fab)
• fall back to just firing implicit intents from chooser
• somehow merge the implicit intents into one list via chooser
• might be useful: EXTRA_REPLACEMENT_EXTRAS (API 21+)

[TWiStErRob]

~Probably related https://github.com/TWiStErRob/net.twisterrob.inventory/issues/191~ (no it's not, that one is a simple UI event listener glitch)

[TWiStErRob]

So based on Google issue tracker it's the usual cluster-bug: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/134367295 everyone is saying this is infeasible, but Google just says it was intentional. Since 29 there have been 5 more releases and the situation didn't change.

[TWiStErRob]

For camera intents there's also this beauty, even when using Intent.createChooser: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/behavior-changes-11#media-capture source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63449581/253468 details: https://commonsware.com/blog/2020/08/16/action-image-capture-android-r.html

[TWiStErRob]

Interesting links:

• https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/04/photo-picker-everywhere.html
• https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common
• https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/reference/common-intents-30