Open Android's System Update page

Question

I want to open the Settings > About > System Update directly from my application. How can I do that?

For Setting > About, I can do this

startActivityForResult(new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_DEVICE_INFO_SETTINGS), 0);

But I am looking for a way to go to system update.

Mohun

Answer 1

it's a bit late, but here is my answer:

startActivityForResult(New Intent("android.settings.SYSTEM_UPDATE_SETTINGS"),0)

Luting

This should be marked as the answer. I've just tried it on Pixel 2 (Android Q) and Samsung S8 (Android P) and it works like a charm. – Errand

@Errand , glad it helped – Luting

there's just one caveat on Samsung devices: this intent starts the same system update screen as it starts on the Pixel 2 device. It doesn't start "the Samsung system update screen" so this way is not applicable on Samsung devices. I've tested it on a variety of Samsung devices with Android 6 to Android 10 and on none of the tested devices it opened the Samsung update screen. Even when one of the devices had a pending update, it wasn't visible in the screen stared by this intent. Unfortunately it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. – Errand

Answer 2

The system update activity is located on com.google.android.gsf/.update.SystemUpdateActivity.

You can open it by using the code below (the simplest, without error handling).

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(ComponentName
    .unflattenFromString("com.google.android.gsf/.update.SystemUpdateActivity"));
startActivity(intent);

Looper

But it is opening googles update activity not OEM specific update activity. – Mohun

You didn't note that you want to get the OEM specific one in the first place, since in Nexus devices, Settings->About->System Update bring the Google one. In this case, I'm afraid I cannot help much. I think you can try to debug your device when it opens the specific activity to get the package and class name. Example is com.lge.lgfotaclient/.DmcFotaUserInterface2 for some LG devices. – Looper

Answer 3

What I've done works for Samsung android version 12 and 13, this code should open this page on Samsung Intent intent3 = new Intent(); intent3.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); intent3.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.Settings$SoftwareUpdateSettingLaunchActivity"); context.startActivity(intent3); I decompiled samsung settings apk 12.0, and found this solution.

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