As Mark suggests it's always good to leave the user a choice.
However if you really want to start that player you can add to the intent
its package name, so that the filtering is limited to that package.
intent.setPackage("com.mobo...");
Hope it helps,
Yuvi
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:
> > I have this code for playing back a movie:
> >
> > Movie_Player.play_movie("/mnt/sdcard/movie1.mpg", this);
>
> Never hardwire paths. Use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().
>
> > public class Movie_Player {
> >
> > public static void play_movie(String file_path, Activity a)
> > {
> > Intent intent = new Intent();
> > intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
> > File file = new File(file_path);
> > intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), "video/*");
> > a.startActivity(intent);
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > The problem is it pops up a list and makes the user choose the movie-
> > player app. Is there an easy
> > way I can tell it to use Mobo Video Player
> > (com.mobo.video.player.arm5)?
>
> Please allow the user to choose whatever video player they want.
>
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