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Tell Android to open a particular file type in your Xamarin.Android app
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| using Android.App; | |
| using Android.Content; | |
| // Tell Android to open a particular file type in your Xamarin.Android app | |
| // Different apps will produce different intents for the same file, so | |
| // you will need multiple intent filters to handle all the cases. | |
| // You can look in the `adb logcat` logs to see which intent appears | |
| // after you have tapped on a file in an app. | |
| namespace AndroidApplication1 | |
| { | |
| [Activity(Label = "FooFileActivity")] | |
| // | |
| // Example Intent for link in web browser: | |
| // START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://www.example.com/test.foo typ=application/octet-stream} | |
| // | |
| // Example Intent for link in e-mail: | |
| // START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://www.example.com/test.foo flg=0x90000} | |
| // | |
| [IntentFilter(new string[] { Intent.ActionView }, | |
| Categories = new string[] { Intent.CategoryDefault, Intent.CategoryBrowsable }, | |
| DataScheme = "http", | |
| DataHost = "*", | |
| // Double-escape the backslashes in C# so they end up | |
| // single-escaped in the generated manifest file | |
| // `obj/Debug/android/AndroidManifest.xml` | |
| DataPathPattern = ".*\\\\.foo" | |
| )] | |
| // | |
| // Example Intent from tapping attachment in Email app | |
| // START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=content://com.android.email.attachmentprovider/1/1/RAW typ=application/foo flg=0x80001} | |
| // | |
| [IntentFilter(new string[] { Intent.ActionView }, | |
| Categories = new string[] { Intent.CategoryDefault, Intent.CategoryBrowsable }, | |
| DataScheme = "content", | |
| DataHost = "*", | |
| DataMimeType = "application/foo" | |
| )] | |
| public class FooFileActivity : Activity | |
| { | |
| } | |
| [Activity(Label = "DownloadsGmailAppsFileActivity")] | |
| // | |
| // Example intent from tapping file in Downloads app | |
| // START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=content://downloads/all_downloads/1 typ=application/octet-stream flg=0x3} | |
| // | |
| // Example Intent from tapping attachment in Gmail app | |
| // START {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=content://gmail-ls/user@gmail.com/messages/4/attachments/0.1/BEST/false typ=application/octet-stream flg=0x80001 u=0} | |
| // | |
| // This IntentFilter isn't so useful because it will match _any_ file | |
| // that has the "application/octet-stream" MIME type, not just `foo` | |
| // files. | |
| // | |
| [IntentFilter(new string[] { Intent.ActionView }, | |
| Categories = new string[] { Intent.CategoryDefault, Intent.CategoryBrowsable }, | |
| DataScheme = "content", | |
| DataHost = "*", | |
| DataMimeType = "application/octet-stream" | |
| )] | |
| public class DownloadsGmailAppsFileActivity : Activity | |
| { | |
| } | |
| } |
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worked for me thanks,