[android-developers] Re: Can two application's content providers share one authority?

Any help????

On Nov 26, 2:21 pm, Pink <sivareddy.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
>
>  >MIME types are a totally different thing, used to determine the
> activity or
> other component that can interact with a particular content: URI.
>
>  How does mapping done between MIME and CONTENT_URI?
>
>  Please give me a scenario if possible.
>
> On Nov 26, 1:34 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > No, the authority must be unique.  That is why the documentation says to use
> > a fully-qualified name for the authority, so it won't accidentally conflict
> > with another app.  If when installing your app there is already another
> > installed app using the same authority as one of your providers, the
> > installation will simply fail.
>
> > MIME types are a totally different thing, used to determine the activity or
> > other component that can interact with a particular content: URI.
>
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Pink <sivareddy.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > >   Can i override already existing content provider
> > >   by implementing another ContentProvider with same authorty?
>
> > >   If that is the case.
> > >   How can android system decides ContentProvider to handle data
> > > requests?
>
> > >   What is typical usae of MIME type?
>
> > >   We maintain unique URI for each Data.
> > >   Then why do we need MIME type again?
>
> > >   Is not CONTENT_URI enough for all requests?
>
> > >   If it is not the case.
> > >   Can you give me some example, where MIME play it's unique role?
> > >   Intent-filter are able provide information about URI as well as
> > > MIME type.
>
> > >   Thanks in advance.
>
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