[android-developers] Re: Looking for intents to control a media player

2010-12-10 Thread neuromit
Right but I was going that there would be a standard set of that would get piped to the user specified default player. so if this standard set of intents doesn't exist how do default applications work? If I want to send a sms from my app it can launch the default Messaging app without even

Re: [android-developers] Re: Looking for intents to control a media player

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, neuromit stuart.lay...@gmail.com wrote: Right but I was going that there would be a standard set of  that would get piped to the user specified default player. ACTION_VIEW on a Uri to some media file should work for that. so if this standard set of intents

[android-developers] Re: Looking for intents to control a media player

2010-12-10 Thread neuromit
Sorry I posted that from my phone and it didn't come out right. I was hoping that there would be a set of system intents that would be passed on to whatever app is designated by the user as the default app. Perhaps I don't understand the inner workings of android enough but I just assumed that

[android-developers] Re: Looking for intents to control a media player

2010-12-10 Thread neuromit
Mark, thanks for your reply! On Dec 10, 9:09 pm, neuromit stuart.lay...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I posted that from my phone and it didn't come out right. I was hoping that there would be a set of system intents that would be passed on to whatever app is designated by the user as the default

Re: [android-developers] Re: Looking for intents to control a media player

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:09 PM, neuromit stuart.lay...@gmail.com wrote: So if I have to use player specific intents for each different media player, what is the best way to discover which intents an application supports? Read the player's developer documentation. If the player lacks such