You are correct that you should use contentResolver.openInputStream (uri), to get the data from gmail attachments.
Default Email app, is very dumb and is hardcoded to only open audio and image attachments. (disclaimer, that was the case 6 month ago, the last time i looked at it). On Jul 8, 10:16 am, Mirko Nasato <mirko.nas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've written an app that can handle the VIEW action for a given > mimeType, say "application/foo". By adding the following to > AndroidManifest.xml the Browser automatically uses my app to open > downloads of that type: > > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/> > <data android:mimeType="application/foo"/> > </intent-filter> > > The GMail app also tries to use my app to Preview attachments of that > type, but it's passing a URI with scheme "gmail-ls://" rather than a > "file://" URI. I guess I need to use a ContentProvider to get the > attachment data, I haven't looked into that yet. > > But the real mystery is the Email app... there just doesn't seem any > way to make it open the attachments. > > Any pointers? Opening attachments is a very common requirement of > course, and I would expect the Android platform to encourage > developers to write apps to handle more mime types. Instead I couldn't > find any answers: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > Thanks > > Mirko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
