In this post Peter Eastman has shared his experience of creating a customized type for his own application and shared from web/email client to his application. In his post, he explicitly mentioned that how the MIME type defined by him …

As mentioned in previous post, the intent object may or may not contain MIME type in it. As Android will compare MIME type when matching intent and intent-filter, it will raise a problem when writing the intent-filter. This post answer …

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3400072/pathpattern-to-match-file-extension-does-not-work-if-a-period-exists-elsewhere-i

The android team chose an unfortunate way to implement pathPattern. You can take a look at how the pattern matching is implemented in the android.os.PatternMatch class:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/os/PatternMatcher.java

We’re used to .* working like it does in a regular …

1. Some broadcast receiver cannot be declared in intent-filter

See a related post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588061/android-how-to-receive-broadcast-intents-action-screen-on-off/1588267#1588267

Android does not seem to support manifest-registered receivers for cases where they really do not want to start up a new process. For example, you …