Getting the Type of File as String

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Get the Type of a File.

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MimeTypeMap mime = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton();
String type = mime.getExtensionFromMimeType(cR.getType(uri));

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Interesting,

I was so lucky to find this post there is no explanation for this code , and and googled it for"Getting the Type of File as String"

Thanks for writing about it

Reply · Aug. 20, 2009, 8:13 p.m.

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ContentResolver cR = context.getContentResolver();
MimeTypeMap mime = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton();
String type = mime.getExtensionFromMimeType(cR.getType(uri));

great piece of code, it's truely handy

Reply · Aug. 21, 2009, 12:07 a.m.