And fwiw, Android basically knows nothing about extensions. Everything at this point is identified through MIME types. There are some hacks you can do with intent filters to kind-of do matching against file extensions, but I wouldn't recommend it.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, ls02 <[email protected]> wrote: > > My app has two private file formats with distinctive extensions. How > > to I register their MIME types and associate them with file > > extensions? My understanding that then my app can be launched to > > handle a file. How is this done and how to extract the file path my > > app is launched to handle? > > Use the <data> element in your manifest and the android:mimeType attribute: > > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" > /> > <data android:mimeType="application/pdf" /> > </intent-filter> > > The BROWSABLE allows you to be launched by clicks in the browser. The > Uri to the file is in getIntent().getData() in your activity. > > > http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Introspection/URLHandler/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in London: http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
