Well, first, you want to drop the mimeType attribute, or possibly merge it into your other <data> element. Right now, you are saying that you support *both*:
-- all files with any MIME type -- files with the particular scheme/host/pathPattern of any MIME type which seems unlikely to be what you want. (multiple of the same element name in an <intent-filter>, like multiple <data> elements, is a logical OR) Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you. I never start activities via am directly, so I don't know if that is part of your problem. I would create a separate activity that calls startActivity() on an ACTION_VIEW Intent with a candidate Uri and see what happens, rather than relying upon third party code as your trigger, so you control things better. There are certainly people using your style of <intent-filter>, as this short-URL to a Google Code Search illustrates: http://goo.gl/2VVul On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, chrisn <[email protected]> wrote: > This is *incredibly frustrating. I have changed my intent-filter to > look like: > > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> > <data android:mimeType="*/*"/> > <data android:scheme="file" android:host="*" > android:pathPattern=".*\\.bif"/> > </intent-filter> > > $ adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d > file:///mnt/sdcard/UIComposer/basicredcube.bif -n > com.nvidia.devtech.UICViewer/.UICViewer > Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW > cat=[com.nvidia.devtech.UICViewer/.UICViewer] dat=file:///mnt/sdcard/ > UIComposer/basicredcube.bif } > > This works fine. > > Dropping the -n {explicity component} from the equation fails. > > What is going on? > > Chris > > On Nov 4, 5:26 pm, chrisn <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am having trouble getting my android system to launch my activity >> for all files with a given extension. >> >> I am using OI File Manager, and trying to get my activity launched for >> all files with a given suffix (bif). >> >> Here is the relevant section of my manifest: >> >> <application >> android:icon="@drawable/icon" >> android:label="@string/app_name" > >> <!--We derive from native activity so we can access >> information >> about the intent the activity was launched with --> >> <activity android:name="com.nvidia.devtech.UICViewer" >> android:label="@string/app_name" >> android:screenOrientation="landscape"> >> <!-- Tell NativeActivity the name of or .so --> >> <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name" >> android:value="UICViewer" /> >> <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="*/*" /> >> <data android:scheme="file"/> >> <data android:host="*" /> >> <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.bif" /> >> </intent-filter> >> </activity> >> </application> >> >> And here is the output of adb logcat when I 'click' on the file: >> >> I/ActivityManager( 145): Starting: Intent >> { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///mnt/sdcard/UIComposer/ >> basicredcube.biftyp=*/* cmp=android/ >> com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity } from pid 566 >> I/ActivityManager( 145): Displayed android/ >> com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity: +370ms >> >> All that happens is that the screen goes slightly darker than it was >> and my app doesn't appear. >> >> Any thoughts as to why this may be? Or more thorough ways to debug >> this? >> >> Chris > > -- > 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 > -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- 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
