Dianne, you are right. What I should say is that getIntent().getData()
returns null, even though the caller app uses intent.setData(). Any
idea why the data is not passed to the callee app?
On 8 Apr, 18:56, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Um, getIntent() will never return null in onCreate().
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> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Derek <xianguan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I called getIntent in both onCreate and onPostCreate, but both return
> > null.
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> > 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);
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> > 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"/
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> > </intent-filter>
>
> > the callee app can pop up, but getIntent return null in onCreate an
> > onPostCreate.
>
> > any idea what's going wrong?
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> > On 8 Apr, 15:56, "nEx.Software" <justin.shapc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This is how I get the filename:
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> > > File f1 = new File(getIntent().getData().getPath());
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> > > I don't know how to enumerate applications which can handle a certain
> > > type of file though.
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> > > On Apr 7, 10:49 pm, Derek <xianguan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > 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
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> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
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