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kaspermoerch
kaspermoerch

Reputation: 16570

Application selection dialog based on filetype

I'm trying to create a Dialog, which will display a list of availible applications to open a given filetype.

I've been looking at some question here on stackoverflow that work with the same issue, but I get lost due to lacking answer. In particular I've been looking at this question:

In Android, How can I display an application selector based on file type?

My follow-up question is then:

Upvotes: 3

Views: 919

Answers (1)

kaspermoerch
kaspermoerch

Reputation: 16570

I found a solution, that gives me a full list of applications that can open a given mimetype. It's not the best, as I would like the list to be more specific and just a few applications (e.g. if it was an URL I wanted to open only browsers would show up) but serves the purpose.

Here is what I did:

File file = new File( "myFileLocation.txt" );
String extension = MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl( file.getPath() );
String type = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(extension);

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction( Intent.ACTION_VIEW );
intent.setDataAndType( Uri.fromFile( file ), type );    
context.startActivity( intent );

Upvotes: 3

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