I just looked at an app in the market that requires the permission,
"Read email attachments".

What permission is this?

On Feb 22, 5:57 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Use getType() on the Intent used to start your activity to find out
> the MIME type of the document.
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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Nalewajek
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> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am having a few issues with sharing email attachments....
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> > My activity has several intent filters that handle multiple MIME-types
> > (pdf, doc, xls, etc.). If I get an email with a .pdf attachment, I can
> > share it with my activity, but inside my activity, I am not sure how
> > to get the MIME type of what is being shared. I can get the
> > inputstream, but I get a permission issue when trying to access
> > getType(uri).
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> > Here is my code to get the input stream:
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> > Intent shareIntent = getIntent();
> > InputStream is =
> > getContentResolver().openInputStream(shareIntent.getData());
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> > If I then print out the value of is.available(), it appears to be the
> > appropriate size. In other words, the data is there.
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> > However, if I call:
> > getContentResolver().getType(shareIntent.getData());
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> > I get the following exception:
> > ERROR/DatabaseUtils(7944): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission
> > Denial: reading com.android.email.provider.EmailProvider uri
> > content://com.android.email.provider/attachment/48 from pid=8048,
> > uid=10114 requires com.android.email.permission.ACCESS_PROVIDER
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> > The problem is, if I simply have the byte array, I have no idea what
> > extension the final file should be.
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> > I know there are apps that can get not only the MIME-type, but can get
> > the entire filename. For example, if I try to open a pdf from my
> > inbox, and I open it with QuickOffice, I can see the filename at the
> > top of quickoffice.
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> > Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong, and at least
> > point me in the right direction? Opening email attachments in another
> > application seems like such a simple feature...
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