Thursday, March 24, 2011

[android-developers] Re: unknown mimetypes and file managers...

Sorry, the class is:

android.webkit.MimeTypeMap

On Mar 24, 4:29 pm, mort <m...@sto-helit.de> wrote:
> I'd like to handle a file extention (.m3u8) which has no registered
> MIME mapping for the extention, when the file is opened in a file
> manager/explorer. But no matter what I try, the file managers I tried
> aren't able to open the file with my app. Is this something that is
> generally impossible in Android, are the file managers poorly
> programmed, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> This is my current state in manifest.xml:
> <intent-filter>
>   <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
>   <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
>   <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
>   <data android:scheme="file" />
>   <data android:host="*" />
>   <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
>   <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.m3u8" />
> </intent-filter>
>
> I also tried without BROWSABLE and/or host, because I thought that
> might be only for browser downloads, but it didn't change anything.

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