register as music player

Question

I\'d like to see my app in the list of player (\"continue action using...\") that pops up when I try to open an audio file (ie. from file browser or gmail attachment). Here

Answer 1

The CommonsWare answer regarding Manifest is good and it works.

"But when I select song and select my app from list, it opens my app successfully but not playing that selected song. what to do for that?? "

If your app is not in background, in your activity OnCreate you can do

 Uri data = getIntent().getData()
 if (data!=null){/*use this Uri like you want*/}

In case your app is in background the Intent you have to intercept will pass through the onNewIntent() method that you have to ovveride.

Here is a complete code example:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    /*...*/
    interceptExternalIntentAndPlaySongFromUri(getIntent());
}

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    interceptExternalIntentAndPlaySongFromUri(intent);
}

private boolean interceptExternalIntentAndPlaySongFromUri(Intent intent){
    Uri data = intent.getData();
    if (data != null && intent.getAction() != null && 
intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)){      
        String scheme = data.getScheme();
        String filename = "";
        if ("file".equals(scheme)) {
            filename = data.getPath();
        } else {
            filename = data.toString();
        }
        player.setDataSource(filename);
        setIntent(new Intent());        //this is to remove the last intent 
//without the above line, last request is reloaded when the user open another app 
//and return in this
        return true;        //has intercepted an external intent. so you can load this uri.
    }
    return false;           //has not intent to intercept
}