OK, I've got this working and it wasn't so hard after all! Thanks go to Alexey Krasnoriadtsev whose post got me heading in the right direction - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/081fae2e99226a30/79303e5fbde3cd27?lnk=raot
The intent created by the gmail app on clicking on an attachment gives a content provider uri. I'm assuming this content provider stores an actual url to the attachment on google servers. To get an input stream containing the attachment: InputStream attachment = getContentResolver().openInputStream(getIntent ().getData()); Then I just used the following xml parsing code: DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance ().newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(attachment); attachment.close(); Element recipe = doc.getDocumentElement(); .... You can view this in context in my source code at: http://code.google.com/p/bites-android/source/browse/trunk/Bites/src/caldwell/ben/bites/Bites.java#313 On Aug 7, 9:22 am, Ben Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote: > My app uses the below intent filter to make itself an xml file reader > for the purpose of inserted data shared between users. This works fine > with xml files viewed in the browser but I can not make it work with > xml files sent as email attachments in the gmail app. > > <intent-filter> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> > <data android:mimeType="text/xml" /> > </intent-filter> > > When I check the logcat output I can see that the gmail app starts > downloading the attachment when I press the "Preview" button, but as > soon as my activity is brought to the front the attachment download is > cancelled and there is no data to parse. > > I see in the intent created from the gmail app there are a couple of > ID numbers for the attachment. Perhaps someone has used these ID > numbers to grab file attachments from the gmail servers? > > Anyone interested in how I am handling XML files so far please feel > free to peruse the source of my project > athttp://code.google.com/p/bites-android/source/browse/trunk/Bites/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
