How to get path of media files in android - android

I want paths of files shared through share intent from any app. I do get path of files like zip, apk, pdf, etc. with code ShareCompat.IntentReader.from(this).getStream().getPath();.
But but I don't get path for image, video and audio files I get content://media/external/video/media/40666, How to get real path of files of this type?

If all you want is the path, you can use the following code
public String getRealPathFromURI(Context context, Uri contentUri) {
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(contentUri, null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
String document_id = cursor.getString(0);
document_id = document_id.substring(document_id.lastIndexOf(":")+1);
cursor.close();
cursor = getContentResolver().query(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,null
, MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + " = ? ", new String[]{document_id}, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
String path = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA));
cursor.close();
return path;
}
It basically uses he ContentResolver to get the data of the file.
You can change the query parameters to get what you want.
Or you can use
getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri)
If you want the entire file

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Get filename and path from URI from mediastore in Nought and Oreo device

I have image uri like this :"content://com.iceburgapp.provider/external_files/.pkgName/File1.jpg"
Now whenever I get path it give me : "/external_files/.pkgName/File1.jpg"
I want to get RealPathFrom content Uri.
I got solution from stackoverflow and I tried below code but not working for me :
public String getRealPathFromURI(Context context, Uri contentUri) {
Cursor cursor = null;
try {
String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri, proj, null, null, null);
int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
return cursor.getString(column_index);
} finally {
if (cursor != null) {
cursor.close();
}
}
}
AnyOne know How to do this? I got below error for using above code.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column '_data' does not exist. Available columns: []
It's only not working in the Nought and oreo device because of contentUri using file provider.
Use a ContentResolver and openInputStream() to get an InputStream on the content identified by the Uri. Ideally, just use that stream directly, for whatever it is that you are trying to do. Or, use that InputStream and some FileOutputStream on a file that you control to make a copy of the content, then use that file.
This is working properly in devices before Android N

How do I get the file name from an Android URI, not just the display name?

so I'm pretty new to Android development. I'm trying to have the user select a song from their SD card or internal storage using a file manager and upload the file to a server. Right now, I'm just trying to access the name of the file that the user selected so that I can use it to access the contents of the file later and upload those contents.
I've looked at other posts concerning this and most of them tell you to query the content resolver and then use the cursor to grab the display name, but that does not always return the display name (this is mentioned in Google's guide to the SAF). It has not been returning the full file name, just part of it (the title of the song).
Here's my code that starts the intent:
Intent chooseIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
chooseIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
chooseIntent.setType("audio/*");
startActivityForResult(chooseIntent, SELECT_SONG_FILE_REQUEST_CODE);
How I'm getting the display name now:
String fileName = null;
if (uri.getScheme().equals("content")) {
try (Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null, null)) {
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
fileName = cursor.getString(
cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(OpenableColumns.DISPLAY_NAME));
Log.i(TAG, "Filename: " + fileName);
cursor.close();
}
}
}
How can I get the full file name rather than just the display name?
You also can use TITLE in Cursor as URI parameter to get the full name of file
use below code it
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,MediaStore.Audio.Media.TITLE, null, null, null);
Or You can use DATA to get Path of the file
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA, null, null, null);
All You have to do is let the user choose the music and after selecting with the use of DATA you have full path of song and with TITLE you have full name of file .
Next just upload it.
There are several things that you can do to improve the performance of the query
You are getting all the columns which can be painfully slow.
You can write code like the one below and then check what field you want to use. You will get all the data for all the audio files installed in the device. You can walk through this code in the debugger to see the data that you need.
{
Uri objUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
String[] entityColumns = {MediaStore.Audio.AudioColumns.DATA,
MediaStore.Audio.AudioColumns.DISPLAY_NAME,
MediaStore.Audio.AudioColumns.TITLE};
cursor = cr.query(
objUri,
entityColumns,
null,
null,
null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
String filePath = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(entityCoumns[0]));
String fileName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(entityColumns[1]));
String fileTitle =
cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(entityColumns[2]));
} while (cursor.moveToNext());
cursor.close();
}
}

Convert content:// uri into a file path

I am having problems converting a uri to a path because of the content tag. So I am trying to select any file type from the Android storage, and I am able to select a file but when I grab the data and try to convert it to a string path my app crashes.
My code to convert the uri looks like
String path = data.getData().getPath();
I've looked around and some say to use a Content provider and content resolver, but I'm not sure how to use them. Any help would be great thanks.
Display it/ upload it to an s3 bucket. When I mean display it, I mean if it's a photo, or video to show it and if it's an audio file I'd like to be able to play it and the same with other files, like PDF and so on.
This method returns the Path as String
private String getPath(Uri uri) {
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null,null);
int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
return cursor.getString(column_index);
}

Android working with MediaStore

How can I open a file that I stored in gallery? I used this method to put my file there:
MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage()
According to documentation it returns String url to the newly created file. However when I trying to open this file it fails. Getting file not found exception.
What am I missing? Any ideas?
It returns the String url or the content uri string back. To get the actual file path from the uri you need to use something like
protected String convertMediaUriToPath(Uri uri) {
String [] proj={MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, proj, null, null, null);
int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
String path = cursor.getString(column_index);
cursor.close();
return path;
}
You can convert the string url that you get to the Uri using Uri.parse(url);

Converting file:// scheme to content:// scheme

I am running to the problem with using Droid X's Files app and Astro file manager to select an image file. This two apps return the selected image with the scheme "file://" while Gallery returns the image with the scheme "content://". How do I convert the first schema to the second. Or how do I decode the image with the second format?
You probably want to convert content:// to file://
For gallery images, try something like this:
Uri myFileUri;
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri,new String[]{android.provider.MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA}, null, null, null);
if(cursor.moveToFirst())
{
myFileUri = Uri.parse(cursor.getString(0)).getPath();
}
cursor.close
Here, the problem is that, for all files we can't have a content Uri (content://). Because content uri is for those files which are part of MediaStore. Eg: images, audio & video.
However, for supported files, we can find its absolute path. Like for images as follows-
File myimageFile = new File(path);
Uri content_uri=getImageContentUri(this,myimageFile);
The generic method is as follows.
public static Uri getImageContentUri(Context context, File imageFile) {
String filePath = imageFile.getAbsolutePath();
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
new String[] { MediaStore.Images.Media._ID },
MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA + "=? ",
new String[] { filePath }, null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int id = cursor.getInt(cursor
.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.MediaColumns._ID));
Uri baseUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/images/media");
return Uri.withAppendedPath(baseUri, "" + id);
} else {
if (imageFile.exists()) {
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA, filePath);
return context.getContentResolver().insert(
MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, values);
} else {
return null;
}
}}
Use ContentResolver.openInputStream() or related methods to access the byte stream. You shouldn't generally be worrying about whether it is a file: or content: URI.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver.html#openInputStream(android.net.Uri)

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