I want to use adb shell to tell my device to display an image on its SD card. I thought this command would work:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity -d file:///storage/sdcard0/Android/data/<mypackage>/files/myfile.jpg
Unfortunately I get this error:
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.browser/com.android.browser.BrowserActivity} does not exist.
I also tried doing a VIEW action, and trying with only the -n or the -d parameters.
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d file:///storage/sdcard0/Android/data/<mypackage>/files/myfile.jpg
Using only the -d parameter results in this error (I tried both with and without the "file://" prefix on the path):
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=/storage/sdcard0/Android/data//files/myfile.jpg }
Error: Activity not started, unable to resolve Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=/storage/sdcard0/Android/data//files/myfile.jpg flg=0x10000000 }
The permissions on the file are:
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 198106 2013-01-02 21:29 gUD9w5.jpg
I'm testing with a rooted Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1.
Update: I tried dtmilano's suggestion but the Crop tool gives a "Couldn't load the image" popup. The stack trace from logcat is:
ActivityManager: START {dat=file:///storage/sdcard0/Android/data/<mypackage>/Pictures/myfile.jpg typ=image/*
flg=0x13000000 cmp=com.google.android.gallery3d/com.android.gallery3d.app.CropImage u=0} from pid 301
UriImage: fail to open: file:///storage/sdcard0/Android/data/<mypackage>/Pictures/myfile.jpg
UriImage: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/<mypackage>/Pictures/myfile.jpg:
open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
UriImage: at libcore.io.IoBridge.open(IoBridge.java:416)
UriImage: at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:78)
UriImage: at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:105)
UriImage: at android.content.ContentResolver.openInputStream(ContentResolver.java:445)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage.openOrDownloadInner(UriImage.java:98)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage.openFileOrDownloadTempFile(UriImage.java:78)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage.prepareInputFile(UriImage.java:164)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage.access$100(UriImage.java:40)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage$RegionDecoderJob.run(UriImage.java:170)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.data.UriImage$RegionDecoderJob.run(UriImage.java:168)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.app.CropImage$LoadDataTask.run(CropImage.java:921)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.app.CropImage$LoadDataTask.run(CropImage.java:913)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:124)
UriImage: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
UriImage: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
UriImage: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
UriImage: at com.android.gallery3d.util.PriorityThreadFactory$1.run(PriorityThreadFactory.java:43)
UriImage: Caused by: libcore.io.ErrnoException: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
UriImage: at libcore.io.Posix.open(Native Method)
UriImage: at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.open(BlockGuardOs.java:110)
UriImage: at libcore.io.IoBridge.open(IoBridge.java:400)
UriImage: ... 16 more
I'm wondering if this is an internal SD card, and maybe the images are being treated as application data, so other apps can't access it?
This should work, however it's dependant on the apps you have installed:
$ adb shell am start -t image/* -d file:///mnt/sdcard/myfile.jpg
Interestingly, it doesn't work if you select Gallery in Complete action using..., but works if you select Crop picture. Also works with Astro Image Viewer.