Show Content such as an image or a video with Android Automate

[enzo.p...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I would like to display an image or a video in case of a given event (for example when charging). 

I am trying to achieve this with the block "view content", but no luck. Does anybody have a working example?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

The Content view block should work if you have an image viewer and video player app installed.
Try hard-coding the content MIME type, i.e: image/jpeg or video/mp4

[enzo.p...@gmail.com]

Thank you for your answer. The issue concerned the syntax I used to specify the URI of the video. By typing manually the path between double quotes, it works (whereas before I was using the URI automatically loaded by the application).

The video now starts correctly, however, the block doesn't wait and it there is a "start activity" in a following block, the video is automatically stopped. I used the delay block to avoid this issue, but the delay block causes other problems. Is it possible by any chance to view all the video without using the delay block?

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Yes, Content view block or App start block can not wait until the video ends, that will be difficult to achieve.
Try using the App decision block instead with the URI in the Extras field: { "android.intent.extra.STREAM" as uri: "file//"++videofile }
or, use the Media tag read to get the Media duration, the an Delay block to pause the flow for that duration.

[Enzo Paradiso]

Thank you again for your answer.

To be sure I understand, supposing for example that the path of the video file is "/storage/videos/intro.mp4", what shall I write in the Extra field? Data URI needs to be empty?

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[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Extras:

{ "android.intent.extra.STREAM" as Uri: "file//" ++ "/storage/videos/intro.mp4" }

On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 9:36:13 PM UTC+1, Enzo Paradiso wrote:

Thank you again for your answer.

To be sure I understand, supposing for example that the path of the video file is "/storage/videos/intro.mp4", what shall I write in the Extra field? Data URI needs to be empty?

[enzo.p...@gmail.com]

Hi there, 

Is it possible to display a video with Automate and, in parallel, to start applications without interfering with the video? In other terms, I would like the device to play a boot animation of a few seconds, and once the animation finished, the apps are loaded and already running. 

Thank you.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

No. Android only allows a single app to in the foreground.
Except on Android 7 with the split screen feature, but that can only be controlled by user interactions.

[Enzo Paradiso]

Okay, thanks anyway!