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Standard Intent action that can be sent to have the camera application capture an image and return it.

The caller may pass an extra EXTRA_OUTPUT to control where this image will be written. If the EXTRA_OUTPUT is not present, then a small sized image is returned as a Bitmap object in the extra field. This is useful for applications that only need a small image. If the EXTRA_OUTPUT is present, then the full-sized image will be written to the Uri value of EXTRA_OUTPUT.

Intent action that can be sent to have the camera application capture an image and return it when the device is secured (e.g. with a pin, password, pattern, or face unlock). Applications responding to this intent must not expose any personal content like existing photos or videos on the device. The applications should be careful not to share any photo or video with other applications or internet. The activity should use FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED to display on top of the lock screen while secured. There is no activity stack when this flag is used, so launching more than one activity is strongly discouraged.

The caller may pass an extra EXTRA_OUTPUT to control where this image will be written. If the EXTRA_OUTPUT is not present, then a small sized image is returned as a Bitmap object in the extra field. This is useful for applications that only need a small image. If the EXTRA_OUTPUT is present, then the full-sized image will be written to the Uri value of EXTRA_OUTPUT.

Standard Intent action that can be sent to have the camera application capture a video and return it.

The caller may pass in an extra EXTRA_VIDEO_QUALITY to control the video quality.

The caller may pass in an extra EXTRA_OUTPUT to control where the video is written. If EXTRA_OUTPUT is not present the video will be written to the standard location for videos, and the Uri of that location will be returned in the data field of the Uri.

Specify the maximum allowed recording duration in seconds.

The name of the Intent-extra used to control the onCompletion behavior of a MovieView. This is a boolean property that specifies whether or not to finish the MovieView activity when the movie completes playing. The default value is true, which means to automatically exit the movie player activity when the movie completes playing.

The name of an Intent-extra used to control the UI of a ViewImage. This is a boolean property that overrides the activity's default fullscreen state.

The name of the Intent-extra used to define the album

The name of the Intent-extra used to define the artist

The name of the Intent-extra used to define the search focus. The search focus indicates whether the search should be for things related to the artist, album or song that is identified by the other extras.

The name of the Intent-extra used to define the song title

The name of the Intent-extra used to indicate a content resolver Uri to be used to store the requested image or video.

The name of the Intent-extra used to control the orientation of a ViewImage or a MovieView. This is an int property that overrides the activity's requestedOrientation.

The name of an Intent-extra used to control the UI of a ViewImage. This is a boolean property that specifies whether or not to show action icons.

Specify the maximum allowed size.

The name of the Intent-extra used to control the quality of a recorded video. This is an integer property. Currently value 0 means low quality, suitable for MMS messages, and value 1 means high quality. In the future other quality levels may be added.

An intent to perform a search for music media and automatically play content from the result when possible. This can be fired, for example, by the result of a voice recognition command to listen to music.

This intent always includes the EXTRA_MEDIA_FOCUS and QUERY extras. The EXTRA_MEDIA_FOCUS extra determines the search mode, and the value of the QUERY extra depends on the search mode. For more information about the search modes for this intent, see Play music based on a search query in Common Intents .

This intent makes the most sense for apps that can support large-scale search of music, such as services connected to an online database of music which can be streamed and played on the device.

Activity Action: Perform a search for media. Contains at least the QUERY extra. May also contain any combination of the following extras: EXTRA_MEDIA_ARTIST, EXTRA_MEDIA_ALBUM, EXTRA_MEDIA_TITLE, EXTRA_MEDIA_FOCUS

Activity Action: Launch a music player. The activity should be able to play, browse, or manipulate music files stored on the device.

The name of the Intent action used to launch a camera in still image mode.

The name of the Intent action used to launch a camera in still image mode for use when the device is secured (e.g. with a pin, password, pattern, or face unlock). Applications responding to this intent must not expose any personal content like existing photos or videos on the device. The applications should be careful not to share any photo or video with other applications or internet. The activity should use FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED to display on top of the lock screen while secured. There is no activity stack when this flag is used, so launching more than one activity is strongly discouraged.

An intent to perform a search for readable media and automatically play content from the result when possible. This can be fired, for example, by the result of a voice recognition command to read a book or magazine.

Contains the QUERY extra, which is a string that can contain any type of unstructured text search, like the name of a book or magazine, an author a genre, a publisher, or any combination of these.

Because this intent includes an open-ended unstructured search string, it makes the most sense for apps that can support large-scale search of text media, such as services connected to an online database of books and/or magazines which can be read on the device.

The name of the Intent action used to launch a camera in video mode.

An intent to perform a search for video media and automatically play content from the result when possible. This can be fired, for example, by the result of a voice recognition command to play movies.

Contains the QUERY extra, which is a string that can contain any type of unstructured video search, like the name of a movie, one or more actors, a genre, or any combination of these.

Because this intent includes an open-ended unstructured search string, it makes the most sense for apps that can support large-scale search of video, such as services connected to an online database of videos which can be streamed and played on the device.

Name of the file signaling the media scanner to ignore media in the containing directory and its subdirectories. Developers should use this to avoid application graphics showing up in the Gallery and likewise prevent application sounds and music from showing up in the Music app.

Name of current volume being scanned by the media scanner.

The string that is used when a media attribute is not known. For example, if an audio file does not have any meta data, the artist and album columns will be set to this value.

Uri for querying the state of the media scanner.

Get the media provider's version. Applications that import data from the media provider into their own caches can use this to detect that the media provider changed, and reimport data as needed. No other assumptions should be made about the meaning of the version.