SliceProvider

abstract class SliceProvider : ContentProvider

kotlin.Any
   ↳ android.content.ContentProvider
     ↳ androidx.slice.SliceProvider

A SliceProvider allows an app to provide Slices to the Android OS. A slice is a piece of app content and actions that can be displayed outside of the app in Android system surfaces or within another app. Slices are identified by a Uri and a SliceProvider allows your app to provide a slice based on a uri.

The primary method to implement in SliceProvider is onBindSlice which is called whenever something wants to display a slice from your app. An app can have multiple slices all served from the same slice provider, the Uri passed to onBindSlice will identify the specific slice being requested. 

public MySliceProvider extends SliceProvider {

     public Slice onBindSlice(Uri sliceUri) {
         String path = sliceUri.getPath();
         switch (path) {
             case "/weather":
                 return createWeatherSlice(sliceUri);
             case "/traffic":
                 return createTrafficSlice(sliceUri);
         }
         return null;
     }
}

Slices are constructed with androidx.slice.builders.TemplateSliceBuilders.

Slices are not currently live content. They are bound once and shown to the user. If the content in the slice changes due to user interaction or an update in the data being displayed, then notifyChange should be used to notify the system to request the latest slice from the app.

The provider needs to be declared in the manifest to provide the authority for the app. The authority for most slices is expected to match the package of the application. 

<provider
    android:name="com.android.mypkg.MySliceProvider"
    android:authorities="com.android.mypkg" />

Slices can also be identified by an intent. To link an intent with a slice, the slice provider must have an IntentFilter matching the slice intent. When a slice is being requested via an intent, onMapIntentToUri will be called and is expected to return an appropriate Uri representing the slice. 

<provider
    android:name="com.android.mypkg.MySliceProvider"
    android:authorities="com.android.mypkg">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MY_SLICE_INTENT" />
        <category android:name="android.app.slice.category.SLICE" />
    </intent-filter>
</provider>
See also
Slice

Summary

Public constructors
SliceProvider(autoGrantPermissions: Array<String!>)

A version of constructing a SliceProvider that allows autogranting slice permissions to apps that hold specific platform permissions.

Public functions
Unit
attachInfo(context: Context?, info: ProviderInfo?)
Int
bulkInsert(uri: Uri, values: Array<ContentValues!>)
Bundle?
call(method: String, arg: String?, extras: Bundle?)

Handles the call to SliceProvider.
Uri?
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
canonicalize(url: Uri)
Int
delete(uri: Uri, selection: String?, selectionArgs: Array<String!>?)
(Mutable)List<Uri!>

Returns a list of slice URIs that are currently pinned.
String?
getType(uri: Uri)
Uri?
insert(uri: Uri, values: ContentValues?)
abstract Slice?
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
onBindSlice(sliceUri: Uri)

Implemented to create a slice.
Boolean
PendingIntent?
onCreatePermissionRequest(sliceUri: Uri, callingPackage: String)

Called when an app requests a slice it does not have write permission to the uri for.
abstract Boolean

Implement this to initialize your slice provider on startup.
(Mutable)Collection<Uri!>

Obtains a list of slices that are descendants of the specified Uri.
Uri
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
onMapIntentToUri(intent: Intent)

This method must be overridden if an IntentFilter is specified on the SliceProvider.
Unit
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
onSlicePinned(sliceUri: Uri)

Called to inform an app that a slice has been pinned.
Unit
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
onSliceUnpinned(sliceUri: Uri)

Called to inform an app that a slices is no longer pinned.
Cursor?
@RequiresApi(value = 28)
query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    queryArgs: Bundle?,
    cancellationSignal: CancellationSignal?
)
Cursor?
query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?,
    sortOrder: String?
)
Cursor?
@RequiresApi(value = 16)
query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?,
    sortOrder: String?,
    cancellationSignal: CancellationSignal?
)
Int
update(
    uri: Uri,
    values: ContentValues?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?
)

Inherited Constants
From android.content.ComponentCallbacks2
const Int
const Int

This property is deprecated.
const Int

This property is deprecated.
const Int

This property is deprecated.
const Int

This property is deprecated.
const Int

This property is deprecated.
const Int

Inherited functions
From android.content.ContentProvider
Array<ContentProviderResult!>!
applyBatch(
    authority: String!,
    operations: ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation!>!
)
ContentProvider.CallingIdentity!
Int
delete(uri: Uri!, extras: Bundle!)
Unit
dump(fd: FileDescriptor!, writer: PrintWriter!, args: Array<String!>!)
AttributionSource!
String!
String!
String!
Context!
Array<PathPermission!>!
String!
Array<String!>!
getStreamTypes(uri: Uri!, mimeTypeFilter: String!)
String!
String!
Boolean
Unit
Unit
Unit

This function is deprecated.
Unit
onTrimMemory(level: Int)
AssetFileDescriptor!
openAssetFile(uri: Uri!, mode: String!)
ParcelFileDescriptor!
openFile(uri: Uri!, mode: String!)
ParcelFileDescriptor!
openFileHelper(uri: Uri!, mode: String!)
ParcelFileDescriptor!
<T> openPipeHelper(
    uri: Uri!,
    mimeType: String!,
    opts: Bundle!,
    args: T!,
    func: ContentProvider.PipeDataWriter<T!>!
)
AssetFileDescriptor!
openTypedAssetFile(uri: Uri!, mimeTypeFilter: String!, opts: Bundle!)
Boolean
refresh(uri: Uri!, extras: Bundle!, cancellationSignal: CancellationSignal!)
Context!
Unit
Unit
Unit
setReadPermission(permission: String!)
Unit
setWritePermission(permission: String!)
Unit
Uri!
Int
update(uri: Uri!, values: ContentValues!, extras: Bundle!)

Public constructors

SliceProvider

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
SliceProvider()

SliceProvider

SliceProvider(autoGrantPermissions: Array<String!>)

A version of constructing a SliceProvider that allows autogranting slice permissions to apps that hold specific platform permissions.

When an app tries to bind a slice from a provider that it does not have access to, the provider will check if the caller holds permissions to any of the autoGrantPermissions specified, if they do they will be granted persisted uri access to all slices of this provider.

Parameters
autoGrantPermissions: Array<String!>

List of permissions that holders are auto-granted access to slices.

Public functions

attachInfo

fun attachInfo(context: Context?, info: ProviderInfo?): Unit

bulkInsert

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun bulkInsert(uri: Uri, values: Array<ContentValues!>): Int

call

fun call(method: String, arg: String?, extras: Bundle?): Bundle?

Handles the call to SliceProvider.

This function is unsupported for sdk <19. For sdk 28 and above the call is handled by android.app.slice.SliceProvider

canonicalize

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun canonicalize(url: Uri): Uri?

delete

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun delete(uri: Uri, selection: String?, selectionArgs: Array<String!>?): Int

getPinnedSlices

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun getPinnedSlices(): (Mutable)List<Uri!>

Returns a list of slice URIs that are currently pinned.

Returns
(Mutable)List<Uri!>

All pinned slices.

getType

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun getType(uri: Uri): String?

insert

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun insert(uri: Uri, values: ContentValues?): Uri?

onBindSlice

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
abstract fun onBindSlice(sliceUri: Uri): Slice?

Implemented to create a slice.

onBindSlice should return as quickly as possible so that the UI tied to this slice can be responsive. No network or other IO will be allowed during onBindSlice. Any loading that needs to be done should happen in the background with a call to notifyChange when the app is ready to provide the complete data in onBindSlice.

See also
Slice
HINT_PARTIAL

onCreate

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun onCreate(): Boolean

onCreatePermissionRequest

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun onCreatePermissionRequest(sliceUri: Uri, callingPackage: String): PendingIntent?

Called when an app requests a slice it does not have write permission to the uri for.

The return value will be the action on a slice that prompts the user that the calling app wants to show slices from this app. Returning null will use the default implementation that launches a dialog that allows the user to grant access to this slice. Apps that do not want to allow this user grant, can override this and instead launch their own dialog with different behavior.

Parameters
sliceUri: Uri

the Uri of the slice attempting to be bound.
callingPackage: String

the packageName of the app requesting the slice

onCreateSliceProvider

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
abstract fun onCreateSliceProvider(): Boolean

Implement this to initialize your slice provider on startup. This method is called for all registered slice providers on the application main thread at application launch time. It must not perform lengthy operations, or application startup will be delayed.

You should defer nontrivial initialization (such as opening, upgrading, and scanning databases) until the slice provider is used (via #onBindSlice, etc). Deferred initialization keeps application startup fast, avoids unnecessary work if the provider turns out not to be needed, and stops database errors (such as a full disk) from halting application launch.

Returns
Boolean

true if the provider was successfully loaded, false otherwise

onGetSliceDescendants

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun onGetSliceDescendants(uri: Uri): (Mutable)Collection<Uri!>

Obtains a list of slices that are descendants of the specified Uri.

Implementing this is optional for a SliceProvider, but does provide a good discovery mechanism for finding slice Uris.

Parameters
uri: Uri

The uri to look for descendants under.
Returns
(Mutable)Collection<Uri!>

All slices within the space.
See also
getSliceDescendants

onMapIntentToUri

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun onMapIntentToUri(intent: Intent): Uri

This method must be overridden if an IntentFilter is specified on the SliceProvider. In that case, this method can be called and is expected to return a non-null Uri representing a slice. Otherwise this will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

Returns
Uri

Uri representing the slice associated with the provided intent.
See also
Slice

onSlicePinned

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun onSlicePinned(sliceUri: Uri): Unit

Called to inform an app that a slice has been pinned.

Pinning is a way that slice hosts use to notify apps of which slices they care about updates for. When a slice is pinned the content is expected to be relatively fresh and kept up to date.

Being pinned does not provide any escalated privileges for the slice provider. So apps should do things such as turn on syncing or schedule a job in response to a onSlicePinned.

Pinned state is not persisted through a reboot, and apps can expect a new call to onSlicePinned for any slices that should remain pinned after a reboot occurs.

Parameters
sliceUri: Uri

The uri of the slice being unpinned.
See also
onSliceUnpinned

onSliceUnpinned

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 19)
fun onSliceUnpinned(sliceUri: Uri): Unit

Called to inform an app that a slices is no longer pinned.

This means that no other apps on the device care about updates to this slice anymore and therefore it is not important to be updated. Any syncs or jobs related to this slice should be cancelled.

See also
onSlicePinned

query

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 28)
fun query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    queryArgs: Bundle?,
    cancellationSignal: CancellationSignal?
): Cursor?

query

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?,
    sortOrder: String?
): Cursor?

query

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
@RequiresApi(value = 16)
fun query(
    uri: Uri,
    projection: Array<String!>?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?,
    sortOrder: String?,
    cancellationSignal: CancellationSignal?
): Cursor?

update

Added in 1.1.0-alpha02
fun update(
    uri: Uri,
    values: ContentValues?,
    selection: String?,
    selectionArgs: Array<String!>?
): Int