how to start an activity in another module explicitly

Question

I created an aar and i added it to my project as an module. in this module i have a HelloWorldActivity that i want to run.

my module manifest looks like this.

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>


    </activity>
</application>

Now i can start this activity from my project using this code

 Intent intent = new Intent("ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity");
 startActivity(intent);

but as you can see this code is implicit and problem with implicit calling is that if i use this module in more than one app, both installed on user device it will show an app chooser dialog to user. So how can make this call explicit, preventing user from switching app?

this code will not run since HelloWorldActivity is not in the same package as calling activity

Intent intent = new Intent(this, HelloWorldActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

I really don't want to change my module for each project that uses it.

Answer 1

You can use the Class.forName(), it worked for me when i was needed to start activity which is in another module in my project.

 Intent intent = null;
    try {
        intent = new Intent(this, 
           Class.forName("ir.sibvas.testlibary1.HelloWorldActivity"));
        startActivity(intent);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }