Um, getIntent() will never return null in onCreate().
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Derek <xianguan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I called getIntent in both onCreate and onPostCreate, but both return
> null.
>
> below is my test code
> the caller
> Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
> intent.setData(Uri.fromFile(new File("/sdcard/abc.doc")));
> //int.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "/sdcard/abc.doc"); // tried
> this one as well
> intent.setType("application/msword");
> startActivity(intent);
>
> the callee's intent-filter
> <intent-filter>
> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
> <category
> android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
> <data android:mimeType="application/msword"/
> >
> </intent-filter>
>
>
> the callee app can pop up, but getIntent return null in onCreate an
> onPostCreate.
>
> any idea what's going wrong?
>
>
> On 8 Apr, 15:56, "nEx.Software" <justin.shapc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is how I get the filename:
> >
> > File f1 = new File(getIntent().getData().getPath());
> >
> > I don't know how to enumerate applications which can handle a certain
> > type of file though.
> >
> > On Apr 7, 10:49 pm, Derek <xianguan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > the other question is that if I'm develop an file explorer, how can I
> > > know all the existing associations between file type (extensions) and
> > > intents.- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>
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