Sending Android Intents from Delphi (Part 2)

Some months ago I wrote a post with title “Sending Android Intents from Delphi (Part 1)”. In that post I promised to write a 2nd part… here’s it is!

This time I want to play a video deployed with my APK using an external player.

Some informations are available on the Internet, but to correctly know how to play the video I’ve to inspect my Nexus 5 with the LogCat while using the default file manager to start the default video player.

The app main form  is shown below

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I’ve added an mp4 video file using the deployment manager.

This is the code under the button click event

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  Intent: JIntent;
  FileName, DestFileName: string;
  Data: Jnet_Uri;
  CompName: JComponentName;
const
  VIDEO_FILENAME = 'videoviewdemo.mp4';
begin
  FileName := System.IOUtils.TPath.GetDocumentsPath + PathDelim + VIDEO_FILENAME;
  DestFileName := TPath.GetSharedDownloadsPath + PathDelim + VIDEO_FILENAME;
  // Copy the file into a public path (you can use any public path)
  TFile.Copy(FileName, DestFileName, true);
  Data := TJnet_Uri.JavaClass.parse(StringToJString('file://' + DestFileName));
  Intent := TJIntent.Create;
  Intent.setAction(TJIntent.JavaClass.ACTION_VIEW);
  if CheckBox1.IsChecked then
  begin
    CompName := TJComponentName.JavaClass.init(StringToJString('android'),
      StringToJString('com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity'));
    Intent.setComponent(CompName);
  end;
  Intent.setDataAndType(Data, StringToJString('video/mp4'));
  try
    MainActivity.startActivity(Intent);
  except
    on E: Exception do
    begin
      Label1.Text := E.Message;
    end;
  end;
end;

Using the checkbox you can force the OS to show the ResolverActivity.

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