Does anyone have a good example of using a service to download a file?
I am not sure whether to use remote or local and even if I was sure, I need a basic example to start with.
Basically, I want to start the service with the url of the file to downland and when the download is done end the service.
Google's example of services is filled with junk so I am not sure what is needed and what is not.
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In Reference to this android file download problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576513/android-download-binary-file-problems
Can anyone explain what does this line mean in the code FileOutputStream f = new FileOutputStream(new File(root,"Video.mp4")); And what does it mean by the parameter root within the File(). Do I need to specify the root path to save the file? if it is the case then how do we specify the root path in android. Code...
Hi! For some reason, I got the impression that there was gonna be a new API or Service in 1.5 to easily ask the system to download a file (instead of having to do everything manually with HttpClient or URL.openConnection, and so on).
But I can't find anything in the API docs to that matter.
Does anybody know if that was added somewhere (or i it is even planned?).
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I have a set of mp3 files on my computer which i want to be the server. Now i have a web service(Songs_Collection). This web service returns the list of all songs present on the server to the user.The user can download the desired file directly from the server.
I have a small problem :
How does my web service get the list of audio files kept on the server in the folder c:Audio Files.
Someone suggested that i need to keep the names in a "Web Content" folder, but can anyone suggest how should i approach it?
I worked out on this part . But now how do I send it to the client on device ?
Can i send it directly as an array? I guess then some seriliazation-deserialization needs to be done. Or If send it as an XML file then how should I proceed? (This is more important)
When I download a file from web in android, then I want to show a progress bar in notification area of status bar through service, but I am not able to do this. How can i do it? I am not able to pass the file length in service. I am giving URL in EditText, and I am clicking Download Button. After Click A class will be called on Click Listener, this class is having a function. In that function I am doing processing or functionality of downloading, Now I want to show the progress bar in Notification Area Through service, but I can not able to do this.
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I want my app to catch downloads of a particular kind of file.
Here's the corresponding part of AndroidManifest.xml:
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Now, open a page with a link to an .exe file, click it. The download manager starts and then tells that The content is not supported on the phone. My activity doesn't even get called.
The questions are:
1) Why doesn't my activity get called?
2) What's the correct way of letting download manager do it's job and then get notified upon file download completion?
How to download an xml file from url connection in android?
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UPDATE - I just had one idea it will work sort of but has problem if the DownloadRunnable gets changed between executions of the downloads.
The modified Runnable interface
interface DownloadRunnable {
void run(InputStream stream);
}
An enum
public enum ServiceHandler {.......................
I have a requirement to change network service permission(such as netd to 660 or something similar) for my application in order to access certain features. I dont want to edit init.rc file to make such changes. Since my application cannot be run in root mode, is there any alternative solution where i could do such modifications from my application point of view.
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try
{
BufferedInputStream getit = new BufferedInputStream(new URL("http://192.168.2.180:8080/android.apk").openStream());
FileOutputStream saveit = new FileOutputStream(path);
BufferedOutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(saveit,1024);
byte data[] = new byte[1024];
int readed = getit.read(data,0,1024);...................
I've some files stored in a SQL database. When a user visits a url with the given ID, the BLOB data is retrieved from the database to the webbrower However, the iPhone (Safari) can't download a *.txt and *.doc file. It says: "Safari can't download this file". A pdf can(!) be downloaded and viewed.On Android none of the files can be downloaded.Is this because the iPhone and Android just can't handle all files? Or am I doing something wrong in the Response.
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1) Where do I store the file?
2) How do I set it to the ImageView in java code?
3) How to correctly override the AsyncTask methods?
In my app, I have to present a few numbers from a .csv file that's accessible from the web. Now, this .csv is quite big. I don't want to download and process the whole thing, there's no point. My numbers are always in the beginning of the file, in well specified positions - lets say position 5 to 10.
Could you give me some tips on how to implement this? I know how to download the whole thing, but don't know how to download only a part of it.
I have a video file on a website in .MP4 format and I want to allow the user to be able to download the video to their SD card by clicking a link. Is there an easy way to do this. I currently have this code but its not working...not sure what I am doing wrong.
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I am getting a parse error when i try to download the .apk file from one of our custom web sites. We are using IIS 7 and i did set the MIME type to "application/vnd.android.package-archive".
if you have come across similar issue while downloading the apk file from a web site and not from Android Market.
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<activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="MainActivity">
<intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
<catagory android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
<data android:scheme="http"/> <data android:scheme="https"/>
<data android:scheme="ftp"/> <data android:host="*"/>
<data android:mimeType="*/*"/> <data android:pathPattern=".*zip"/>
</intent-filter> </activity>
Went back to the browser, and fails again. Restart the Emulator, still fails. Note that I got this format from posts here.
Currently I'm developing a web based android application. I tried many codes and non of them were succeed. Can any one post me a code for download file to android phone.
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