As kevin.gaudin pointed out in reply to my bug report, it worked for me because VCard is in the list of allowed Mime Types because it fits text/*. So there is still no solution for application/*.
On 20 Aug., 17:42, "brian.schimmel" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very stange... I experienced the same problems that you for > some days, and now after comlaining and submitting a bug, it suddently > works without any changes to my code. In my case, I setup a > IntentFilter for some Mime Types, and opened an attached VCF-File in > the Email App with the "Open" Button. It starts my activity in this > way: > > Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.VIEW > data=content://com.android.email.attachmentprovider/f70bd905-0a85-4355- > a56f-a41ef6e20100.db/222/RAW flags=0x1 comp={com.companyname/ > com.companyname.ActivityName} } > > So everything is fine with the "Email" app. Even the Mime type is > somehow getting through (that is, I think so, because how else would > Android know to delegate this Intent to my app?) > > But I still experience the same problems with the Gmail App. It > supplies a "Preview" button and a click starts a download but yields > "The attachment could not ne fetched because this type of file cannot > be displayed on the phone." Maybe I need to adjust my IntentFilter to > handle the file:// protocol, I'll try that and report about it. > > On 20 Aug., 17:28, "brian.schimmel" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This is very annoying, so I just submitted a bug/issue > > athttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3611 > > > You can go there and "star" the issue to get notified on updates. > > > I also looked into the source of theEmailapp. It's completely > > incredible how many layers of indirection are involved after clicking > > on the "download" button (which will not even be visible if the media > > type is not supported) or the "preview" button. It finally ends up in > > com.android.email.activity.MessageView.Listener.loadAttachmentFinished > > (Account, Message, Part, Object) and if this is NOT a "download", then > > this code will be executed (at least I think so, I currently can't > > debug it): > > > Uri uri = AttachmentProvider.getAttachmentUri( > > mAccount, > > attachment.part.getAttachmentId()); > > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); > > intent.setData(uri); > > intent.addFlags > > (Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION); > > startActivity(intent); > > > As you can see, there is no intent.setType(), so any IntentFilter that > > filters by type will not receive this intent. > > > On 16 Aug., 08:20, Nivek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Any idea about how to get the real name of the attached file ? > > > > Nivek > > > > On 10 juil, 19:13, Alexey Krasnoriadtsev <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > You are correct that you should use contentResolver.openInputStream > > > > (uri), to get the data fromgmailattachments. > > > > > DefaultEmailapp, is very dumb and is hardcoded to only open audio > > > > and imageattachments. > > > > (disclaimer, that was the case 6 month ago, the last time i looked at > > > > it). > > > > > On Jul 8, 10:16 am, Mirko Nasato <[email protected]> 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> > > > > > > TheGMailapp also tries to use my app to Previewattachmentsof 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 theEmailapp... there just doesn't seem any > > > > > way to make it open theattachments. > > > > > > Any pointers? Openingattachmentsis 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 [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
