Android :: Open A Local App File In Another App Via An Intent
Nov 8, 2010
I don't want to store said file on the sdcard in this case. The file also cannot be storage directly in the apps local files directory. It needs to be in a subdirectory, so it cannot write the file using openFileOutput() and MODE_WORLD_READABLE.
The app may download files small files like pdfs and store them locally in a subdirectory. I would like to be able to have the user open these files if they have an app that can open them.
For example here is an intent for sending a pdf:
CODE:..............
path being something like: /data/data/packagename/files/subdir/example.pdf
That intent will open a pdf viewer, but the viewer is unable to open the file. I assume this is a permissions issue. I tried Mark Murphy's suggestion here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/4e55d869213483a9/b7270078ac1a2744?lnk=raot of using Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod 755 " + fileName); but it didn't make any difference. He also suggested a Content Provider but I would like to avoid it if I can because it seems like a lot just to get this file over to another app.
If the content provider is the only option, do I have to save the file to the content provider or can I just use the content provider as a pass through to get it to the other app when I need to?
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Aug 31, 2009
My open source application needs to browse local HTML files on the SD card, and WebView is not enough because I need history and bookmarks. I wrote the following code. It correctly opens the browser, but fails to reach catalog.html and in fact it just opens whatever page was last browsed:
Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/ myapp/catalog.html");
Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setData(uri); intent.setClassName("com.android.browser", "com.android.browser.BrowserActivity"); startActivity(intent);
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Sep 7, 2013
i just registered here to find out if opening a KML file on my SD card with Google maps in offline mode can work. I am looking for an solution quite a time, but only found this thread on stackover.
Quote:
To load kml into Google Maps on Android without writing an app, you can create a little html file somewhere with a geo-uri link to the kml file and then click on that link in any Android web browser.
For example: suppose your kml file is located in /sdcard/overlay.kml then you write a geo-uri link like this:
Quote:
<html>
<head><title>Example KML link page using a geo-uri</title></head>
<body>
<a href="geo:0,0?q=file:///sdcard/overlay.kml">overlay.kml</a>
</body>
</html>
Clicking on the link will launch Maps and then Maps will attempt to load and your kml.
Be warned however that the Android version of Maps does not appear to handle the same version/range of kml elements as the desktop version (or desktop Google Earth).
a other thread is about editing the manifest file to get maps to open local KML files
Quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="h**p://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.lyold"
[Code]....
Any way to open local KML files with google maps in offline mode ? I want to open kml ONLY in google maps, i know there are several apps out there that support kml files....
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Sep 6, 2010
How to play video present in local file system (ex:in res/a.3gp) using VideoView .I am getting error as Video cant be played.Can any one help me in sorting out this issue?
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Nov 10, 2009
I have a WebView that I'm using to open some files stored in the assets/ directory of my project. It works fine for most of the files, but there's one in particular (and I'm sure others I haven't found) that it just will not open.Code...
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Jun 30, 2010
Is there a way to open and edit word file in android and if this application exist does it has an open API?
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May 6, 2010
I know how to update my own programs, and I know how to open programs using the a predefined Uri (for sms or email for example)
I need to know how I can create an Intent to open MyTracks or any other application that I don't know what intents they listen to.
I got this info from DDMS, but I havn't been succesful in turning this to an Intent I can use. This is taken from when opening MyTracks manually.
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Sep 13, 2010
Forgive me if this is a topic that has already been discussed, but I've searched for hours and can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. I'm trying to cut my teeth on Android programming with a simple file manager app and currently have most all functions working, but I can't seem to open a selected file with the appropriate app.
Here is my current code:
CODE:..................
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Jul 1, 2009
I'm trying to read some local files, and ive been reading a lot of stuff about it, but i still don't know where to store the files on my phone and how to get the right path. Some say, it should be stored on /data/data/your.package.here/files but where is that, i mean i can get there when using the emulator but i have no clue how to put files in this on a real device.
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Jul 26, 2010
All of the android examples for XmlPullParser pull from a local resource file, and all of the SAX examples pull the XML from a URL. I've been told SAX is faster, so I'm trying to use that to pull data from a local resource file (res/xml/thefile.xml)
The example code I'm working off of is here. So in that example, the code I want to change is:
URL url = new URL("http://example.com/example.xml");
...
xr.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
Instead of using URL, I want to use getXml(R.xml.thefile)
Is that possible, or does SAX need to get data from a URL?
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Nov 27, 2009
I'm trying to get a byte array of an image saved locally on the phone. I'm using the code...
How can I get the Bytes?
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May 30, 2012
Using Local XML file as a database for a android app?
I am trying to build a app with flash using a xml file as database, to read the xml from a external file from the local directory isn't a problem, the problem is how to write data from flash to the xml file.
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Oct 5, 2010
I have a kind of an ApplicationLauncher that has to start the build-in gallery. But I dont want to get any result from that gallery... I just want to start it and want my "Launcher" to close after that.
What ive tried:
CODE:................
But it doestn even work with this flag... as soon as I click on a pic in the gallery, it closes and returns to my "Launcher". Is there any way to achieve what i want to do?
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Nov 9, 2010
Does anyone know of an intent I can use to open a raw mp4 resource in the phone's video player?
I tried this code:
CODE:..............
This threw an ActivityNotFoundException, however this has worked for me when the URI was the sdcard and the video was located there. Does anyone know how I can use the above code with a resource file in my app?
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Feb 28, 2009
I thought it might be interesting to some developers. Here's a complete working example of ContentProvider for this purpose: http://blog.tourizo.com/2009/02/how-to-display-local-file-in-android. I also found a topic here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa. Looks like the topic was closed and I couldn't reply there, so I created new one.
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Jan 13, 2010
How can i load a local (on my HD) KML or KMZ file to the android application? I know that these lines do the work:
Intent mapIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); Uri uri1 = Uri.parse("geo:0,0?q=http://code.google.com/apis/kml/ documentation/KML_Samples.kml"); mapIntent.setData(uri1); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(mapIntent, "Sample"));
BUT, if I download the KML_Samples.kml and put it on my local apache server, it doesn't work. Another thing, can I load a kmz file to my application?
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Apr 28, 2010
Can anyone tell me how to parse a local xml file stored in the system using SAX ,with an example code.please also tell me where can i find information on that
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Jun 18, 2010
How come this is the only file manager on the market (that I've found... I went through quite a few) that can open an HTML file from your SD card? I was a loyal user of Estrogen until I found that it couldn't.
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Aug 20, 2010
I was trying to open an Activity of an other applicatoin by using an implicit Intent. It doesn't work, I thought it is possible to start an Activity of an other Application by using implicit Intent. Or do I missunderstand it?
I added following intent-filter to the AndroidManifest of Application A:
CODE:..............
And called the Intent in Application B by using folloing code:
CODE:.............
All I get ist, the error message that Application A was stoped unexpectedly.
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Jun 28, 2010
I've been trying to find out how to create an intent that will open the user's preferred browser without specifying the URL. I know how to open it by giving a specific URL like this:Intent intent = new Intent();intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setData (android.net.Uri.parse ("http://www.google.com")) ;context.startActivity (intent);I don't want to open the browser to any page in particular, just the set homepage or whatever page the user was on last. I've thought about looking up the homepage set within the app but you can't do it with the default Browser app because it is private. Does anybody know of a way to do this?
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Sep 29, 2010
This should be very simple, but I can't find the answer anywhere. How do I load an html file (which I assume I keep in res/raw folder) into a webview?
neither mWebView.loadUrl("file:///raw/about");
or
mWebView.loadUrl("file:///raw/about.htmal");
works.
What's the correct syntax or arrangement.
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Nov 2, 2010
How do I open a a local html-page (named, for instance "test.html") in a WebView? where should i keep this keep html page with images in project and how to use Webview.loadUrl(String url)?
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Nov 12, 2009
I am having File which contains Hebrew Content.. How to load that file.. I tried by using
webview .loadUrl("file:///android_asset/abc.htm") but it won't works.. Some garbage content was there.
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Mar 5, 2010
I am trying to get googlemaps to accept a local KML file.
final Intent myIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("geo:0,0?q=file://" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/locate.kml"));
startActivity(myIntent);
The file is on the SD card, and is a valid KML file. Google Maps loads up, but says it cannot find the file.
final Intent myIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("geo:0,0?q=http://www.website.com/locate.kml"));
startActivity(myIntent);
Works fine. geo: 0,0? q= seems to be very under documented, how to use it to refer to a local file?
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Jul 21, 2009
I plan to have a 3gp video file that will come with the installation package, it will be placed in /files/ subdirectory, and I would like to ask the native Android media player to play it when I want that.
Here is what I have planned to do/code:
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Uri data = Uri.parse("BattlestarGalactica.3gp"); intent.setDataAndType(data,"video/3gpp"); startActivity(intent);
However, when I try to launch the lines above, I get the following error:
CODE:.............
And the video can not be played.
What am I doing wrong that is not applicable to Android platform?
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Oct 20, 2009
I am working on a project for a belgium Tv Guide. Now I download a database (.db) file from a server to the sdcard to work with. In this database are 2 tabels, tvchannels and tvprograms. Now I can do several updates to the tvchannels table and i want to make a backup of this table to a lokal database file. How can i do that? I want to do this because I have to download a new database file every daye from the server and the channels that are choses are saved in the tvchannels database. I want to backup this database table and when the new database file (tvgids.db) is downloaded I want to replace the tvchannels database (from downloaded database file) with the backup from tvchannels..
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May 21, 2010
What is the easiest way to read an xml file? How is the best way to store the information from the xml?
I have tried to find a good tutorial, but I just can't get it to work..
I have an xml file in /res/xml called myxml.xml which looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <school> <student> <fname>Ola</fname><lname>Nordmann</lname> </student> </school>
I just want a simple way to read and store.
(Yes, I am a beginner
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Nov 3, 2010
I am new to Android and relatively new to Java so please bear with me. I have an XML file stored in the res/xml that I am trying to write to. I know how to read it using XmlResourceParser, but I have not been able to find a way to write to that file locally. Could someone point me in the right direction please.
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Nov 14, 2010
I'm a novice user writing my first android application. I have the need to upload a file to a webserver from the device. I googled enough before joining this forum and not at one place did I find a suitable solution. I would like to know how to launch the file browser when user clicks on the "Browse" button to upload a file.
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Jan 13, 2010
I'm trying from main Activity (MainFile.java) to open a Map as a new intent through a menu. Something like this...
CODE:..............
And I already have set up thing on my manifest.xml with access to...
CODE:........
It worked fine with other File.class, but with the Map.class doesn't seem to be working.
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