How to exclude my own Activity from Activity.startActivity(Intent) chooser ?

Question

My app works with pictures. It can take multiple pictures as an input, process them, and send them again to another app.

As a consequence, my main Activity has declared an intent filter on ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE for image/* mimetypes and can result in issuing a new Intent with the same action and data type using Activity.startActivity(Intent).

Is there a way to exclude my own activity from the list of apps that is displayed to the user after the startActivity() call ?

Answer 1

Not directly, AFAIK. However, you could create your own chooser using PackageManager and queryIntentActivityOptions(), which does allow for filtering yourself (or other things) out.