disable the intent filter from android manifest programmatically

Question

In my activity I have a web view and in manifest.xml I have declared intent filter like this

Answer 1

You can do this (disable the intent filter from android manifest programatically) by using Activity Alias:

1) add (e.g. AliasMySocialNetworkActivity) in AndroidManifest.xml to your MySocialNetworkActivity and move your intent-filter to them. It will be looks like that:

2) add this code to suppress intent-filter in alias activity when You need that

PackageManager pm = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
        ComponentName compName =
                new ComponentName(getPackageName(), getPackageName() + ".AliasMySocialNetworkActivity");
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                compName,
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

3) restore intent-filter, when You need it:

PackageManager pm = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
    ComponentName compName =
            new ComponentName(getPackageName(), getPackageName() + ".AliasMySocialNetworkActivity");
    pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
            compName,
            PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
            PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

For more details see this or that answer.

Update

Actually You don't need Alias, just use PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED/PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED

PackageManager pm = getApplicationContext().getPackageManager();
        ComponentName compName =
                new ComponentName(getPackageName(), getPackageName() + ".MySocialNetworkActivity");
        pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(
                compName,
                PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,
                PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

directly on your activity. Thanks @pskink.