>From what I searched before, ContentProvider is only for allowing Database access to your app from other apps... In your case I'm not sure you would want to use a ContentProvider to access files... You might be able to hack it but I wouldn't recomend it... Try a service... Maybe inside the service open a proxy to listen for incoming requests... :)
-Moto On Jun 13, 12:35 pm, Alex Xin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, All > > I'm now trying to implement my own content provider. My original data was > stored on network or local/remote file systems, so I want to provide data > via input stream. I know that client may call ContentResolver.getnputStream > to retrieve the input stream to access data. But I don't know how to > implement content provider in this situation, I searched the Internet but > all the tutorials for content provider are talks about how to expose data > that stored on local database. > > Could anyone please help me on this or give me some code snippets to show > how to expose data that stored on file systems using a content provider? > > Also could anyone please tell me what happened when client > call ContentResolver.getnputStream? I want to know how to return an input > stream to my client. > > Thank you > > Alex -- 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
