How do I download a file via default Android Downloader?

Question

How can I download files using Android downloader? (The downloader that WebBrowser is using that too).

I tried something like this :

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW , Uri.parse("MyUrl"));
startActivity(i);

Any better way?

Edit

I am using Android 2.2

Answer 1

If you want to download it onto the user's SD card from an URL, you can just open it in the phone's default internet browser.

String url = "https://appharbor.com/assets/images/stackoverflow-logo.png";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);

(Code from this question)

The android browser will then start and the file (in this case an image) will be downloaded.