No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.settings.action.MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS

Question

My application crash when I do this :

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
    if (Settings.System.canWrite(ListOfTerminalsActivity.this)) {
         // Do stuff here
     } else {
         Intent intent = new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS);
         intent.setData(Uri.parse("package:" + getPackageName()));
         intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
         startActivity(intent);
     }
}

It happend on API 23 in ZUK Z2 this is logs ;

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.settings.action.MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS dat=package:pl.teminalmobile flg=0x10000000 }
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2464)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2536)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:159)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1353)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5504)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime:  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
01-24 12:33:56.123 30159 30159 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.settings.action.MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS

It doesn't happend and my application not crash for example on device samsung s5 API 23, samsung s7 API 24

Answer 1

Quoting the documentation for ACTION_MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS:

In some cases, a matching Activity may not exist, so ensure you safeguard against this.

So, wrap your startActivity() call in a try/catch block, and if you get an ActivityNotFoundException, do something else. For example, you could try the same Intent action but not include the package Uri.