Thanks, Mark - now I understand what is going wrong. I suppose if the help file were on the sdcard it would work.
Is there a recommended way of showing a help file in assets from within an app - I've searched around and can't find anything appropriate. Using WebView seems like overkill. Julian On Feb 4, 3:54 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > You have two problems. > > First, you are using setClassName() with packages and classes that are > not your own. > > Second, you are telling the opened activity to find a help.html file > in its own application assets. file:///android_asset/help.html will be > interpreted in the context of the app trying to use it. > > I am not aware of a Uri syntax that will work to have files in one > app's assets be addressable by another app. > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Julian Bunn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to launch the browser to show an HTML help file that is in > > the assets directory of my .apk. > > > My code is: > > > Uri uri = > > Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/help.html"); > > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri); > > > intent.setClassName("com.android.browser","com.android.browser.BrowserActivity"); > > startActivity(intent); > > > The browser starts up and displays the error message that it can't > > find the help.html file. I've run out of ideas as to what may be wrong > > - can anyone please point out where I'm doing this incorrectly? > > > Thanks! > > Julian > > > -- > > 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/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in NYC:http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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
