You can use a ContentProvider to serve files. See the openFile() method. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Moto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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