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How to get calling app of an Inplicit Intent?

I made a filemanager and I added the org.openintents.action.PICK_FILE and org.openintents.action.PICK_DIRECTORY actions in the intent-filter inside the manifest, in order to work as FileChooser for other apps. I think these are called Implicit Intents. I was thinking in K9 mail client when I did this, since K9 does not come with a file chooser for attachments (!!).

Problem is that K9 crashes if a directory is choosen. So I would like to test how the FileChooser was called, if PICK_FILE or PICK_DIRECTORY.

Where is this info stored?

Thx

Solution

  • Call getIntent().getAction() in your activity to get the action string that was used to start your activity originally.