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Mathijs Segers
Mathijs Segers

Reputation: 6238

Download a file in App like web

I can't really find by googling or searching stack what I should do for this: Our app is a tool to browse content generated through the API or on a website, in this content we have different files:

For images and video's we're displaying an viewer to display them. However for documents we would like the system itself to handle the file, therefore we'd like them to be downloaded like downloads from the browser.

Any idea's how I should handle such a request from android? All the files are just given by URL. I guess it should be easy but I can't really see how now.

Edit: Just for people who might be adding the wrong search words to google aswell this is all I needed:

//getting the download manager, my globalVars.context is added in the activity this is in a static function since I need this same code like 10 times in my app
dm = (DownloadManager) ((Activity) GlobalVars.context).getSystemService(GlobalVars.context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
//set the request by an url from string to URI 
DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(Uri.parse(url));   
//add this line to keep the notification after downloading, more options at: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.Request.html            request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
    //execute the download request
    enqueue = dm.enqueue(request);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 192

Answers (1)

super-qua
super-qua

Reputation: 3188

You can access the DownloadManager by calling getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE); and it will handle the download in background for you once you set it up. The references for getSystemService and DownloadManager

Upvotes: 1

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