Multiple file extension/mimetype intent-filters with one activity

Question

Gents,

I'm trying to get it so that my Android application can respond both to files being opened (via matching their extensions) and to mime-types (so they will work from the browser).

I've followed the advice here:

Android intent filter for a particular file extension?

but still had no luck.

The relevant section from my android manifest file is as follows:

<activity android:name="MuPDFActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <data android:mimeType="application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <data android:mimeType="application/pdf"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <data android:mimeType="application/x-cbz"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
            <data android:scheme="file"/>
            <data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
            <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.xps"/>
            <data android:host="*"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
            <data android:scheme="file"/>
            <data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
            <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.pdf"/>
            <data android:host="*"/>
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
            <data android:scheme="file"/>
            <data android:mimeType="*/*"/>
            <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.cbz"/>
            <data android:host="*"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

As you can see, I would like the app to be invoked for .pdf, .xps, and .cbz files, also files with the relevant mimetypes. Local tests here seem to suggest that the .pdf and application/pdf sections are both working, but try as I might, the .xps (and presumably .cbz) sections are not.

Am I missing something obvious here? Can each Activity only have one mimetype/file pattern?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Robin

Answer 1

afaik, that would rather be like that (one filter with the various values):

 <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
        <data android:mimeType="application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument"/>
        <data android:mimeType="application/pdf"/>
 </intent-filter>

Also, is it possible that the mime-type is incorrect?