A third party developer is free to write an application that understands the zip MIME type and does something with it that the user might care about. This functionality is not currently provided as part of the base platform.
Why do you want to download on to your phone a zip file or some other file type that you can't do anything with? On Aug 19, 3:54 pm, Sir Nobax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if this is the right place, but I have a (simple?) question > about the Download Manger integrated in the 0.90 SDK Emulator. > Soo, I tried, just to familiarize myself with my common use of a phone > on Android, to surf 'the web' a bit, downloading some pictures, little > bit of messing around, i.e. just playing. (and so far I like it :D ) > However, when I tried to download a ZIP file, the download manager > refused to download it, giving the following 'error': > > "<Unkown> > download2us.softpedia.com > Cannot download. The content being downloaded is not supported on the > phone." > > Uh, what? First, no ZIP support? Why no ZIP support? > Second, why won't it download the file, or at least let the user be > able to force the download it, by e.g. a "Download Anyway" button that > appears when you 'long-press' it. > > I hope I am missing some hidden options or something, because, if it > is true, that there is a very limited amount of files I would be able > to download, I'd consider that a MAJOR drawback. > > Anyone that can comment on this 'problem'? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
