Is it possible to start activity through adb shell

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I want to start activity through adb shell  So that I can launch a specific activity that is needed

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adb shell am broadcast -a android intent action xxx   Mention xxx as the action that you mentioned in the manifest file

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For example this will start XBMC   adb shell am start -a android intent action MAIN -n org xbmc xbmc android app NativeActivity    More general answers are already posted  but I missed a nice example here

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I run it like AndroidStudio does   am start -n  com example app dev com example app phonebook PhoneBookActivity  -a android intent action MAIN -c android intent category LAUNCHER   If you have product flavour like dev  it should occur only in application package name but shouldn t occur in activity package name   For emulator  it works without android exported  true  flag on activity in AndroidManifest xml  but I found it useful to add it for unrooted physical device to make it work

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eg   MyPackageName is com example demo  MyActivityName is com example test MainActivity  adb shell am start -n com example demo com example test MainActivity

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You can also find the name of the current on screen activity using  adb shell dumpsys window windows   grep  mCurrentFocus

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Launch adb shell and enter the command as follows  am start -n yourpackagename  activityname

[android] Is it possible to start activity through adb shell?

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