title: How does android figure out the MIME type of a URI for an implicit Intent?
body: <p>I'm currently learning to develop Android apps and have a fairly basic question:</p>
  
  <p>Suppose I want to send out an implicit Intent to open up data specified by a URI link, e.g. "content://com.mynewauthority:8100/table1". And suppose I have created a custom Content Provider that maintains an SQLite table at "content://com.mynewauthority:8100/table1".</p>
  
  <p>Now since I haven't specified the MIME type for my table, but only the URI to it, Android must be able to figure it out somehow. But since it is a custom-made table, I decide on the MIME type myself, so it could be "monkey/bananas" for all I know. I can't seem to find anywhere in the Content Provider implementation that specifies which MIME type goes with which URIs except the getType(URI uri) function which doesn't seem to be used by the Android system for Intent resolution.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is: How does Android figure out the MIME types associated with URIs for custom-made content providers during resolution of implicit Intents?</p>
  
  <p>Hope this question is clear enough!</p>