Need to kill an activity of a foreground app?

[dhinch...@gmail.com]

1)I want to stop an activity of an foreground app ?

2)Also if I could get a complete activity name from where the device is not rooted?

3)Can  I get a complete list of contacts from device?

[Automate developer]

1. Try the Kill app block, or Interact block with Back or Home action.
2. Complete activity name of what, the foreground app?
3. Try using the Contact query block with only * as the query value.

[dhinchak dhoom]

2. Yes I am getting activity as com.llamalab.autona....skRemovedActivity that's not good because I am not able to get the complete name if it is a longer name. It can be the foreground app and background app.

3. I tried with '*' at first place but it didn't provide me anything.

[Automate developer]

2. Are you using the "Pick activity..." button in the "App in foreground" block? The name are only displayed with an ellipsis in the dialog, tap the an item and the "Activity class" field will contain the full name. The full class name are too long to fit on a single line.
3. Sorry, forgot to check. Yes, that won't work since the Contact query block only returns a single contact. I'll have to make a new block for matching multiple contacts.

[dhinchak dhoom]

2 Yes I am using the 'pick activity'  button  from 'App in Foreground' . 

3 It's not a problem if we don't have a block where multiple contact are not extracted from a single query. But can we have a pointer that extract the next contactname from current query because I tried with loop but getting the same contactname again and again. 

I have a doubt " I got in my DATA USE that Automate has used DATA around 1 MB. May I know the reason why?  Because it neither use DATA from Internet for things like advertisement dry nor I had used for DATA setting? Is it like if I provide access to my contact then they are copied to server in background same like Google ?"😈😈😈😈

[Automate developer]

3. The Query contact block is designed to be used to look up a single contact by phone number, e-mail, name, etc., and not to get every contact. Why do you need to loop through every contact? If you want the user to select a contact use the Contact pick block.

Automate only access the internet when you're browsing the community, or using the FTP, Google Drive and HTTP request blocks in you flows.
Uninstall the Connectivity permission, then it's impossible for Automate to access the internet.

[dhinchak dhoom]

3. I want to get the list of contact that have special dates in a particular month. So that I can greet them.

Also If you can suggest me how to throw complete values from an array or dictionary on a single dialog.

Thanks for the perfect reply as I was expecting :)

[Automate developer]

To show "select from a list" dialog use the Dialog choice block, it takes an array or dictionary of labels.

[dhinchak dhoom]

How would I get two or more than two contacts that has same number ?

[Automate developer]

Currently not possible. But i'll probably going to create another version of the Contact query block which returns an array of Contact URIs and a new Contact get block, similar to how the Calendar query/get block works.

[dhinchak dhoom]

But what can I do woth URI?
i am new beginner with Automate and Android.

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[Automate developer]

With a Contact URI? It's used by the Contact pick and Contact query blocks, it can also be viewed with the Content view block.

On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 5:02:45 AM UTC+2, dhinchak dhoom wrote:

But what can I do woth URI?
i am new beginner with Automate and Android.

[dhinchak dhoom]

Can you provide me scenarios where you think that CONTACT URI is useful?

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    Pick contact?
   Contact URI: uri
          |
    Contact query?
   Query value: uri
 Primary e-mail: email
          |
     Gmail send
      To: email
Message: "I'll be there soon"

   

On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 6:03:17 PM UTC+2, dhinchak dhoom wrote:

Can you provide me scenarios where you think that CONTACT URI is useful?

[dhinchak dhoom]

Hello Developer,
But can I get the other values like relationship, Other mobile number than primary number, Other events, event types,event dates and all other values related with contact.

[dhinchak dhoom]

In sms sent block I am not getting the timestamp when the sms sent but getting the UNIX timestamp as described in the documentation.
I think it is the bug i also tried with changing the timestamp using dateFormat function.

[Automate developer]

Currently no.

[Automate developer]

The SMS sent time may not always be available. It's an Android bug which never gets fixed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2695980

I'll change it so null returned, instead of 0.

[dhinchak dhoom]

But in the same link it was already told that it is working for Android 4.4.4 so why do we need to set it zero.

[Automate developer]

When i get the time i'll try to come up with a workaround, until then don't rely on the "Sent timestamp" in the SMS Sent nor SMS Received blocks.

[Fred Kleytman]

Do you a list of devices kill app does not work on?

I have rooted LG V410 and kill app gives me JAVA script error.

[Automate developer]

Please user the Help & feedback menu to send me a system log, then i'am able to see the cause.

Also, read the following post to help be resolve superuser/root issues:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/automate-user/xMNgMjH4x_U/KhxYtEIJ3FcJ