> My question was, if I can browse through sdcard and I know that the file > is "...txt" then why can't I open it like all other files?
To quote from the documentation: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/Intent.html "For data that is not a content: URI and where no explicit type is included in the Intent, instead the scheme of the intent data (such as http: or mailto:) is considered. Again like the action, if we are matching a scheme it must be listed by the component as one it can handle. " You are assuming that Uri.parse("file://home/sdcard.img/test.txt") yields something that an Activity can understand and respond to. That does not appear to be the case given your symptoms, though I haven't tried it myself. You may wish to try using an explicit MIME type, to see if that helps (see Intent#setDataAndType()), but I suspect there simply is no "view a *.txt file" activity built into the operating system. That simply means you need to create a *.txt-file-viewer activity, no different than you might need to create a *.doc-file-viewer activity if you wanted to view Word files, or a *.csv-file-viewer activity if you want to view CSV files, etc. Please bear in mind that Android is not a file-centric OS to the extent that, say, Windows Mobile is. Neither is iPhone, near as I can tell. Paradigms like "file browsers" that may be trivial in one mobile OS may be somewhat more work in other mobile OSes, like Android or iPhone, just as things that may be relatively easy on Android (e.g., mapping application) might be excruciatingly painful on another mobile OS. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.1 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
