Handle download intents in my app

Question

My webview app already handles external URL\'s fine (opens links from external apps like viber, browsers, etc) like this- (i got this code from here)

// get URL          


        

Answer 1

you have to solve issues to

• (a) always show the chooser
• (b) tell android that your app should become part of the chooser
• (c) process the "download"

(a) always show the chooser

replace

startActivity(i);

with

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "caption of the choser"));

(b) tell android that your app should become part of the chooser

In the manifest you have to declare that you have an activity that can handle the relevant content

* (c) process the "download"

MyDownloadActivity Your MyDownloadActivity.onCreate() will receive all mime-types * / * for SEND, SENDTO, VIEW. For Details see @Vickyexpert-s answer

intent-intercept is a free android tool to analyse intents. it can intercept nearly every intent. you can look at the sourcecode to see how this is done.

I use sendtosd as my general purpose download handler. It-s sourcecoder is available on github