Re: Internet Shortcut

On Thu, 8 May 2025 23:03:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :

<https://openclipart.org/search/?query=icons>
But it's a good site for beginners ...

Also note they use the resolution-independent SVG format.

Point well taken, and agreed upon. You know your icons & formats well.

The Windows analogy to an Android Intent is similar to the action when
you doubleclick on a *.html file in Windows where it opens the default
browser.

 
Except an Android Intent is not specific to opening pages in web browsers;
it is a general inter-application communication mechanism.

Your point is well taken where you're actually agreeing with & therefore
strengthening the ad hoc analogy since both work kind of sort of the same.

When you doubleclick on a Windows *.html file, it brings up the URL in the
default web browser; when you doubleclick on a *.csv file, it brings up the
document in the default Excel program; when you doubleclick on a *.jpg file
it bring it up inside the default image editor (and so on).

Sometimes you even get an Activity Chooser where you get to pick which
specific program you want the {html,csv,jpg} file to open up inside of.

Same (kind'a sort'a) with Intents.

Each Android Intent has (a) an Action and (b) Data and (c) an Activity
Chooser, which essentially accomplishes almost exactly the same things.

Android uses the MIME Type, e.g.,
a. MIME type = text/html => for opening Firefox
b. MIME type = text/csv => for opening Excel
c. MIME type = image/jpeg => for opening Gallery

In summary, it's my humble opinion that a Windows file-based shortcut
(e.g., *.htm, *.csv, &.jpg) is kind'a sort'a like Android Intents, for the
purpose of describing how one-tap shortcuts open up files inside of apps.