Android Question Calling office document viewer app

microbox

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Hi, I'm still learning on B4A, I need some advice on how to create an application that will view office docs called on b4a app. The following steps I think might be good(please correct me if I have it wrong).

1. Create an interface in B4A
2. Call another application (e.g office document viewer) using intent when user click on a button.
3. User select docs to open in a certain storage device.
4. After viewing files, user closes the called app and goes back to the main application/interface.

Please let me know how would you approach what I need for my app?

Thanks everybody,
microbox
 
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microbox

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Thanks for replying Erel, I was able to open the other application in my B4a app(Polaris' Office) using this code StartActivity(pm.GetApplicationIntent("com.infraware.office.link"))..is there a way to know what available parameters I can use when calling this app. For example: I want to open a particular document/type or look in a particular folder in my code?
 
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