@capawesome-team/capacitor-file-opener

Capacitor plugin to open a file with the default application.

Installation

npm install @capawesome-team/capacitor-file-opener
npx cap sync

Android

You need to specify the directories that contain the files you want to open. To do this, create a new file named file_paths.xml in the res/xml directory of your Android project (e.g. android/app/src/main/res/xml/file_paths.xml). Here is an example of the content of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <files-path name="files" path="." />
    <cache-path name="cache" path="." />
    <external-files-path name="external-files" path="." />
    <external-cache-path name="external-cache" path="." />
    <external-path name="external" path="." />
</paths>

More information can be found in the Android documentation.

Variables

If needed, you can define the following project variable in your app’s variables.gradle file to change the default version of the dependency:

• $androidxDocumentFileVersion version of androidx.documentfile:documentfile (default: 1.0.1)

This can be useful if you encounter dependency conflicts with other plugins in your project.

Configuration

No configuration required for this plugin.

Demo

A working example can be found here: robingenz/capacitor-plugin-demo

Android	iOS

Usage

import { FileOpener } from '@capawesome-team/capacitor-file-opener';

const open = async () => {
  await FileOpener.openFile({
    path: 'content://com.android.providers.downloads.documents/document/msf%3A1000000073',
  });
};

API

• openFile(...)
• Interfaces

openFile(...)

openFile(options: OpenFileOptions) => Promise<void>

Open a file with the default application.

Param	Type
options	OpenFileOptions

Since: 0.0.1

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Interfaces

OpenFileOptions

Prop	Type	Description	Since
blob	Blob	The blob instance of the file to open. Only available on Web.	6.1.0
path	string	The path of the file. Only available on Android and iOS.	0.0.1
mimeType	string	The mime type of the file. If not specified, the mime type will be determined. Only available on Android and iOS.	0.0.1

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

See LICENSE.