Android's intent-filter matches files regardless of their extension

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I want my application to able to open .src files with XML content. It partially works; there's one problem I can't solve: it looks like Android doesn't take android:pathPattern into account when matching the intent. My intent-filter looks like this:

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="com.google.android.apps.drive.DRIVE_OPEN" />
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <data android:host="*" android:mimeType="text/xml" android:pathPattern=".*\\.src" />
    <!-- path pattern does not match dots correctly: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3400072/44089 -->
    <data android:pathPattern=".*\\..*\\..*\\.src" />
    <data android:pathPattern=".*\\..*\\..*\\..*\\.src" />
    <data android:pathPattern=".*\\..*\\..*\\..*\\..*\\.src" />
</intent-filter>

Before I added android:mimeType="text/xml", literally every 'view' action was matched to my app, i.e. my app was visible in the application chooser, even if I wanted to see a contact. Fortunately, adding mimeType filtering helped a bit. But still, pathPattern doesn't seem to change anything in the way my intent filtering works.

I've seen tens of tutorials about this and the code is identical. It must be some weird, unusual case. What am I doing wrong? I'd be grateful for any ideas or suggestions.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '14 at 13:07

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Quoting the documentation for android:path* attributes:

These attributes are meaningful only if the scheme and host attributes are also specified for the filter.

You do not appear to have a scheme.

answered Oct 11 '14 at 13:07

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Thanks, that was it! I added `` to my `intent-filter` and now it works as expected. I should read the documentation more carefully... :) – PiotrK Oct 11 '14 at 13:19

Android's intent-filter matches files regardless of their extension

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