Activity Action: Allow the user to select a particular kind of data and return it. This is different than
There are two main ways to use this action: if you want a specific kind of data, such as a person contact, you set the MIME type to the kind of data you want and launch it with
You may also be interested in any of a set of types of content the user can pick. For example, an e-mail application that wants to allow the user to add an attachment to an e-mail message can use this action to bring up a list of all of the types of content the user can attach.
In this case, you should wrap the GET_CONTENT intent with a chooser (through
When using such a broad GET_CONTENT action, it is often desirable to only pick from data that can be represented as a stream. This is accomplished by requiring the
Callers can optionally specify
Input:
Output: The URI of the item that was picked. This must be a content: URI so that any receiver can access it.