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Open .puz files from email app #102

Open zanhecht opened 7 years ago

zanhecht commented 7 years ago

I subscribe to the AVCX crossword which comes to me via email weekly. If I click on the .puz attachment Android offers to open it with a couple different apps, but Shortyz isn't an option. I have to go through the cumbersome process of downloading it to my phone and then using a file manager to move it to the shortyz directory. Can shortyz register the intents to open .puz files from email and from file manager apps (something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35162756/android-associate-file-extension-with-app)? Ideally, when using Shortyz to open a file in this manner, it would be copied to the crossword directory as if it had been downloaded directly.

kebernet commented 7 years ago

If you are a gmail user, you can have it check your gmail box for you automatically for puzzle files. If you go to Settings -> First Run Screens and configure the gmail screen, it will check your gmail account for puzzles in the same date range when you do the download operation.

I will see what is up with the opening them from those emails. If the mime type is right, Shortyz should handle it.

zanhecht commented 7 years ago

The gmail function doesn't work for me, but that's probably because I use G Suite so my gmail address doesn't end in gmail.com.

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If you are a gmail user, you can have it check your gmail box for you automatically for puzzle files. If you go to Settings -> First Run Screens and configure the gmail screen, it will check your gmail account for puzzles in the same date range when you do the download operation.

I will see what is up with the opening them from those emails. If the mime type is right, Shortyz should handle it.

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zanhecht commented 7 years ago

Gmail is known to be unreliable when it comes to mime types (it basically relies entirely on the sending client). For example, the .puz files I get from AVCX are "application/octet-stream". The usual workaround is to use two almost identical intents, one with the correct mime type and a path pattern of ".", and a second with a mime type of "/" and a path pattern of ".\.puz".

On May 31, 2017 10:58 AM, "kebernet" notifications@github.com wrote:

If you are a gmail user, you can have it check your gmail box for you automatically for puzzle files. If you go to Settings -> First Run Screens and configure the gmail screen, it will check your gmail account for puzzles in the same date range when you do the download operation.

I will see what is up with the opening them from those emails. If the mime type is right, Shortyz should handle it.

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kebernet commented 7 years ago

So FWIW on the AVCX crosswords, they SHOULD work. I get the CRooked Crosswords from the same service and they work for me. I will look into this, though. Also, GSuite shouldn't matter as long as Shortyz can get an OAuth token for the Gmail API from your phone.

ThatGitJer commented 7 years ago

I'll add a sort-of "me too" - for me, Shortyz has never been able to open puz files from file managers. Robo Crosswords (formerly Words With Crosses) is given as an option, but not Shortyz. I assumed it was just not implemented, but now looking at your manifest it looks like you intended for it to work.

I'm using Android 6.0.1; tested with FX, Solid Explorer Classic, Total Commander, RAR, and Speed Software's Explorer/Root Explorer. (Some other file managers give a longer list of apps, and in that case Shortyz IS offered).

FWIW, the app Dexplorer recently had this issue; I believe the dev fixed it by having a separate intent-filter for the mimeType and pathPattern (which is what zanhecht suggested above).

[BTW, this is my first post to Githib. More to come ;-) ]

davmillar commented 5 years ago

I'd like to bump and +1 the feature request to register an intent for .PUZ consumption. I'm a puzzle author writing Numcross puzzles and I'm currently testing my PUZ files in various apps. I could email myself the file, but it would be much easier to be able to open it in Shortyz directly from Dropbox.