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Sahil
Sahil

Reputation: 1983

Handling Media Files in Android by installed apps

I have an app which records Audio and video. Then there is a list in the app which displays these recorded files. When user clicks on one of this file, I would like to display an option of apps that user can choose to play this clicked file. An example of it is shown below.

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All the examples I have looked on internet is of using a media player which I am already doing but I would like the pause, stop etc function to be handled by an already available app in the users device.

Is this possible to do? If so how?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 239

Answers (2)

Sahil
Sahil

Reputation: 1983

I found the answer by readin up on the internet.

First prepare the file location and then open an intent with the data at this location

Uri fileURi = Uri.parse(tempFileURi); //i.e. /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.sahilsaid.appname/files/Music/Recording200.3gp
File file = new File(fileURi.toString());

 if (file.exists()) {
    Uri finalFileUri = Uri.fromFile(file);
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent.setDataAndType(finalFileUri, URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(finalFileUri.toString()));
    startActivity(intent);

 }

You will also need to modify your AndroidManifest.xml file and add intent-filter as suggested above by @Aky

   <activity
        android:name=".exampleActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_example">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.GET_CONTENT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.OPENABLE" />
            <data android:mimeType="audio/*"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

For more info visit this article:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/03/20/video-playing-with-android-media-player

Upvotes: 1

Akshay Chordiya
Akshay Chordiya

Reputation: 4841

I guess your Activity which handles Audio and Video should have this in AndroidManifest. The below intent-filer is for Audio files, similarly you can add for Video files for the same Activity.

<activity ...>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.GET_CONTENT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.OPENABLE" />
            <data android:mimeType="audio/*"/>
        </intent-filter>
</activity>

EDIT: For your Activity

Suppose you show a list of audio files and user is suppose to click one. So when the user clicks some item. You just need to set the result. Ex.

    setResult(RESULT_OK, new Intent().setData(YOUR_URI));

The 2nd param is just the data which we need to pass to the calling Application basically we pass the URI of the data.

EDIT 2: The RESULT_OK is inherited variable of Activity. You don't need to define it.

I hope it helps you.

Upvotes: 1

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