LocalFileOpener plugin for Phonegap
By Cesar Parra


The LocalFileOpener plugin opens an intent to help you easily open local files on the device under installed applications.

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Installing the plugin

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1. Move fileopener.js to your project's www folder

1.1 Add the javascript reference into the html after the reference to phonegap.js
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="fileopener.js"></script>

2. Create a folder within your project called src/com/phonegap/plugins/fileopener and move FileOpener.java into it

2.1 Add the plugin to your config.xml
<plugin name="FileOpener" value="com.phonegap.plugins.fileopener.FileOpener" />

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Using the plugin

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/*
* Open the intent for the local file
*
* @param filePath
*/
start(filePath)

Sample use:

navigator.fileopener.start('mnt/sdcard/Download/myfile.pdf');

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Licence

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The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Cesar Parra

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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