android - What are the possible intent types for intent.setType(type)?

Question

I was searching about how to send an email from my app and I came across this topic:

how to send email from my android app

it solves the problem adding a type to his action send:

i.setType("message/rfc822");

That works for me too, I can send my email and it's great. I was just wondering what else I can set there.

I know that if i don't set anything it will show the list with all the options available. I want to force the user to share it using whatever option I pick. Can i explore this to force the user to share in whatever way I desire?

Answer 1

This might be so late but as a beginner this is my attempt to your above question :) hope this will help you,myIntent.setType(String mimeType) input param is represent the MIME type data that u want to get in return from firing intent(here myIntent instance).
by using one of following MIME type you can force user to pick option which you desire.
Please take a Note here, All MIME types in android are in lowercase.

Here is the list of common MIME type that you can set in setType():

image/jpeg
audio/mpeg4-generic
text/html
audio/mpeg
audio/aac
audio/wav
audio/ogg
audio/midi
audio/x-ms-wma
video/mp4
video/x-msvideo
video/x-ms-wmv
image/png
image/jpeg
image/gif
.xml ->text/xml
.txt -> text/plain
.cfg -> text/plain
.csv -> text/plain
.conf -> text/plain
.rc -> text/plain
.htm -> text/html
.html -> text/html
.pdf -> application/pdf
.apk -> application/vnd.android.package-archive