After playing around with this on the emulator, it looks like it's HTC-specific. Plain Android 4 does Linkify just fine, while my HTC One S doesn't fire intents from Linkify. Odd, but I can work around that.
Cheers, Jim Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. - Gary Busey On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've tried moving all the <data> tags for each intent filter into one tag, > and adding a mimetype attribute, but that doesn't work. Intent filters both > with separate or consolidated <data> tags works in 2.2. I haven't gotten a > lot of time at my dev box over the last few days, but the next thing I want > to try is to generate a plain Android 4 emulator image and see if my > Linkify code works with that. > > About 15% of my players have Android 4, and I haven't gotten any reports > of this from the field, so I'm starting to suspect it is HTC-specific. The > Android 4 emulator test should tell me more. I'll keep you folks informed > about what I find out. > > > Cheers, > Jim > > Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. > > - Gary Busey > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Or it might be a missing mimeType attribute in the intent filter (since >> the >> > uri uses the content scheme). >> >> Having consulted with some HTCians, the Linkify change they made >> simply blocks the appearance of a chooser. If there is more than one >> activity that handles a given Intent triggered by the Linkify link, >> they go with the default. >> >> So, while it's possible the HTC Linkify somehow fits, it seems less >> likely, unless there's a bug in their implementation. Hence, I agree >> that the <intent-filter> may be the problem. I'd first try: >> >> <data android:scheme="content" android:host="com.ctenophore.gso.help" /> >> >> which more accurately describes your scenario (right now, you claim to >> handle everything in the content:// scheme, and *also* claiming to >> handle everything with your specified host). If that does not help, >> add in android:mimeType="..." to the one <data> element, replacing ... >> with the appropriate value for whatever this activity handles. For >> example, if you are linking to HTML pages, use >> android:mimeType="text/html". >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.7 Available! >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- 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
