Android download manager examples

GingerBread brought a new feature, DownloadManager, which allows you to download files easily and delegate the hard work of handling threads, streams, etc. Method's name explains it all. Once you are sure DownloadManager is available, you can do something like this:. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.

Learn more. Android: How to use download manager class? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 6 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed 67k times. Improve this question. Farshid Shekari 1, 3 3 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Kris Kris 3, 14 14 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 66 66 bronze badges. Yes its possible. This util class helps us to create directories to store image and song.

We also need to configure our service in AndroidManifest. If we do not add service to the Manifest file then the service never going to start. The following shows you how you can add service tag in AndroidManifest. You guys must be thinking where is the DirectoryHelper class. I thought it might not good to explain about storage in DownloadManager tutorial but, you can see it on GitHub with the complete example.

I hope this blog gives you a good understanding of DownloadManager. Create an annonymouse BroadcastReceiver class and implement the onReceive method as follows:. Here is yet another DownloadManager example written in Kotlin. This utilizes Kotlin Coroutines. It also involves checking for necessary permissions at runtime before the download.

Here is the function that constructs and returns the Download status as a string that can be displayed to the user:. The following function will allow you to ask for the necessary permissions before we proceed with the download:. Thanks for stopping by. To be eligible all you need is by sign up right now using my profile. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

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I have a button that passes an url data using putExtra to a new activity that should download the url file with android download manager. I only want to know is where to put these all functions inside my new activity's onCreate or before or after it. Pleas help i am real new to android. Intent Member Jun Member Hi, where i put the intent code to complete the code? Thank you in advance. Way to save the target file at your required sdcard path.

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