Receive intent with "Open With" on Android

[jaroslawdabrowski]

Hi Team,

great job with this plugin. It is very helpful and I did not have any issues with it.

However, I would like to add my app to show on the "Open with" list for PDF files. I have added the following to my manifest: <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="application/pdf" /> </intent-filter>

Unfortunately your plugin does not handle this case. Uni link plugin hops in and I receive a path to the file in following format: "content://....". I am not able to open that link.

Is there any way to configure your plugin so that it works the same way as I would use the share option?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[abhinavsinghring]

I also wanted that my app can open pdf's in my custom built in pdf reader page so I did some testing and found that when opening file using <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> android system send the uri of this file to intent and this package handle this type of intent as url/text type

To get the exact path of file using this I'm sharing my full code below so that you can reproduce.

AndroidManifest.xml

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

I have used uri_to_file package to convert Uri to File. This basically creates a folder in AppDirectory and creates a temporary copy file there and returns its path.

MainAuthPage.dart

import 'package:receive_sharing_intent/receive_sharing_intent.dart';
import 'package:uri_to_file/uri_to_file.dart';
import 'dart:io';

class MainAuthPage extends StatefulWidget {
  const MainAuthPage({super.key});

  @override
  State<MainAuthPage> createState() => _MainAuthPageState();
}

class _MainAuthPageState extends State<MainAuthPage> {

  StreamSubscription? _intentDataStreamSubscription;

  @override
  void initState(){
    super.initState();

    // For sharing or opening urls/text coming from outside the app while the app is in the memory
    _intentDataStreamSubscription =
      ReceiveSharingIntent.getTextStream().listen((String? value) async {
      if (value != null) {
        debugPrint('path of file: ${Uri.parse(value).path}'); 
        File file = await toFile(value);
        Get.to(
          ()=> PdfReaderPage(
            url: file.path,
            name: file.path.split('/').last.split('.').first,
            isFile: true,
          ),
          transition: Transition.cupertino,
          duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 500),
        );
      }
    }, onError: (err) {
      debugPrint("getLinkStream error: $err");
    });

    // For sharing or opening urls/text coming from outside the app while the app is closed
    ReceiveSharingIntent.getInitialText().then((String? value) async {
      if (value != null) {
        debugPrint('path of file: ${Uri.parse(value).path}'); 
        File file = await toFile(value);
        Get.to(
          ()=> PdfReaderPage(
            url: file.path,
            name: file.path.split('/').last.split('.').first,
            isFile: true,
          ),
          transition: Transition.cupertino,
          duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 500),
        );
      }
    });
  }

  @override
  void dispose(){
    super.dispose();
    _intentDataStreamSubscription?.cancel();
  }