How intercept a google maps intent in Android?

Question

I was trying to intercept a google maps intent as the following:

Intent myIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("geo:37.423156,-122.084917"));

but I haven't found any example, link or documentation of this. So, I'm thinking that unfortunately is not possible.

In the Manifest file I put several intent filters. Specially I think that the next intent filter must match with the mentioned intent.

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW" />
        <data android:scheme="geo"/>
    </intent-filter>

In addition I tried to investigate what activities match with this particular intent by means of:

List resolves = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(myIntent, 0 );
ResolveInfo firstRevolve=(ResolveInfo) resolves.get(0);
IntentFilter myIF=firstRevolve.filter;

Nevertheless only MapsActivity matches with the intent, not my Activity, and surprisingly myIF is null, so that I can't obtain the intent filter that the google maps activity uses.

In addition I installed "Intent Intercept" from Android Market, but it does not capture this intent.

So, I need some help/idea. Somebody knows what is happening? In my opinion Google restricts this interceptions but this restriction is not specified.

Any help will be appreciated. Best regards, Pablo.

Answer 1

The code example below is just working fine in my project.

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
    <data android:scheme="https" android:host="maps.google.com" />
    <data android:scheme="geo" />
</intent-filter>