Questions tagged [download-manager]

A download-manager is often used for handling long-running downloads, and might support pausing, interrupting and resuming.

The download manager will conduct the download in the background, taking care of HTTP interactions and retrying downloads after failures or across connectivity changes and system reboots.

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Android Downloadmanager not starting download

I am trying to download a file from my server via REST. When using DownloadManager nothing happens (I have put breakpoints in my server project an the server is not being reached). When I use AsyncHttpClient I get the byte stream which I convert…
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how download managers like IDM,orbit ,... disable built-in chrome download manager

I want when download links clicked in chrome my own custom window showed instead showing built-in chrome download manager window. how? how disable the built-in chrome download manager? I read the entire chrome extension API document but doesn't…
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When trying to save a .jpg file it opens the dialog box even if custom firefox profile is configured not to

I want to create automated test in selenium webdriver with cucumber to download some stuff and I am using a custom firefox profile, but it seems not to work when downloading jpg files. Can you help me with tips & tricks how to make jpg files to be…
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Download manager is not working in WebView for downloading .pdf and .docx files in android

Iam working on webview for loading this Url, my code loads the url fine but whenever i clicked on a file in that url it does't downloading, i think the problem is with file extensions. And i also need the files to be downloaded to a particular…
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Android how to download something WITHOUT showing any notification or notifying the user

I want to download a file using downloadManager but I don't want to show any notifications. I think the term for this is silent downloading. Any help would be appreciated.
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Android DownloadManager remove() API

When i want to cancel the pending and ongoing downloads handled by the DownloadManager, i use the remove() API. It works great. But it seems that remove() call returns almost immediately but the default system notification indicating the download…
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Downloading Videos offline at night time in android

I have to implement downloading videos during night time or when WiFi is ON in Android Downloading should be done in background even when my App is not open. Please some one let me know how to implement this. I browsed on net but didn't find exact…
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Building simply download menager with libcurl on Ubuntu, in C

I'm having some problems with my code. I get segmentation code error after compiling my program. I want to build simply download tool so i'm using the simplest ideas for it.(User enters the url and program download file into users desktop). Could…
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pause/resume download in my activity by com.mozillaonline

I'm using open source project for download files https://github.com/JiboStore/DownloadProvider This library worked correctly, For example this code starting download and show list with pause/resume feature: DownloadManager mDownloadManager = new…
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allow download managers to get file by php

i am using read file function to allow users to download files through a php page and i am blocked direct access to files with htaccess.but the problem is the files can't be downloaded with download managers like IDM and it says:"This site doesn't…
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Multi Thread java downloader downloading corrupted file?

I am attempting to make a multiThread downloader in java. It works but the file that I download is always missing some bytes. I have searched and found many example of multiThreaded web crawlers but nothing simple, so can anyone tell me if my method…
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DownloadManager or Input, Output Stream to Download and Save Image in Android?

I want to download and save image from server in Android. So, I came to know about DownloadManager & Input, Output Stream. Both are working fine from my side. But, I want to know that which one is better to use ? DownloadManager is supportable from…
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DownloadManager java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

One user sent me the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL content://downloads/my_downloads at android.content.ContentResolver.insert(ContentResolver.java:860) at…
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Best technique for saving download list

im trying to develop a download manager for my college project using java. I wanna know the best technique that can be used to save the download list. Im using jtable and abstracttablemodel to display the download thread details. I want the download…
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How to allow website visitors to download huge files

What is the best way to allow visitors to a website to download files the size of tens of gigabytes? In this case it is about movie files, so they are already relatively compressed. Here are some assumptions: Only one visitor will want to download…
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