No Activity found to handle Intent when using FileProvider

Question

In my app I have a custom auto download and install APK it works like this

  // auto register for the complete download
     activity.registerReceiver(onComplete, new IntentFilter(DownloadManager.ACTION_DOWNLOAD_COMPLETE));



 // Download the file through DownloadManager
 String destination = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/";
    String fileName = "myfile.apk";
    destination += fileName;
    final Uri uri = Uri.parse("file://" + destination);
    DownloadManager.Request request = new  DownloadManager.Request(Uri.parse(apkUrl));
    request.setDescription("description");
    request.setTitle("title");
    request.setDestinationUri(uri);
    final DownloadManager manager = (DownloadManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
    final long downloadId = manager.enqueue(request);

onComplete = new BroadcastReceiver() {
      public void onReceive(Context ctxt, Intent intent) {

          Intent install = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
          // BEFORE working doing this
          //install.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
          //install.setDataAndType(uri,
          //    manager.getMimeTypeForDownloadedFile(downloadId));

          // Using file provider it doesnt work
          Uri apkUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(AutoUpdate.this,
              "com.myapp", file);
                install.setDataAndType(apkUri,manager.getMimeTypeForDownloadedFile(downloadId));
          activity.startActivity(install);
          activity.unregisterReceiver(this);

      }
    };

Android manifest:

<provider
            android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
            android:authorities="com.myapp"
            android:exported="false"
            android:grantUriPermissions="true">
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
                android:resource="@xml/provider_paths"/>
        </provider>

Provider_path (Sorry for some reason so cuts the path tag)

external-path name="myfolder" path="."/>

When the file finished to download the onComplete is called but the activiy doesn't start:

No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=content://com.myapp/myfolder/myfile.apk typ=application/vnd.android.package-archive flg=0x4000000 }

When using the normal file:// it does work

Is there something I'm missing when using the file provider? Does the activity doesn't start because the file is not found ? Do I need extra permission ? (at the moment I have INTERNET, READ and WRITE on external storage)

Answer 1

The package installer only supports content schemes starting on Android 7.0. Prior to that — and despite documentation to the contrary — the package installer only supports file schemes.

You will need to set the Uri on your Intent differently based on whether you are running on Android 7.0+ or not, such as by branching on Build.VERSION.SDK_INT.