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Is there a reliable way to get the MediaStore asset from a image picker URL

When using the default photo picker, one only receives an URL to the image or video.
I would like to also get some Media Store metadata, but am not sure if there is a way to get the media store asset from the url.
How would I get it?

Seems like this could be a reliable solution:
String[] projection = {MediaStore.Images.Media._ID};
String selection = MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA + " = ?";
String[] selectionArgs = {imageURL};
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, selectionArgs, null);
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
int idColumn = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID);
long id = cursor.getLong(idColumn);
// Do something with the image ID.
}
if (cursor != null) {
cursor.close();
}

How share images/videos in custom folders using ContentResolver/ or other way in Android ? Getting FileUriExposedException Exception

I have a custom folder in the Pictures directory, like this Pictures/MyFolder. It has images in MyFolder. Here is how to share the images using ContentResolver on MyFolder only. Or is any alternative ways to share the image. It is on android 11.
I queried images using the following snippets
String[] projection = new String[]{
MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA,
MediaStore.Images.Media._ID,
MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME,
MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN};
Uri images = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
final String orderBy = MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN;
Cursor cur = context.getContentResolver().query(images,
projection, // Which
// columns
// to return
null, // Which rows to return (all rows)
null, // Selection arguments (none)
orderBy + " DESC" // Ordering
);
int bucketColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME);
int dateColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN);
do {
bucket = cur.getString(bucketColumn);
if (bucket.equals(context.getString(R.string.app_name))) {
date = cur.getString(dateColumn);
imagePath = listImageByFolder.get(bucket);
if (imagePath == null) {
imagePath = new ArrayList<String>();
}
imagePath.add(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA)));
Uri x = Uri.withAppendedPath(MediaStore.Images.Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, String.valueOf(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA))));
listImageByFolder.put(bucket, imagePath);
} ;
} while (cur.moveToNext());
While I try to share the image, Getting android.os.FileUriExposedException: file:///storage/emulated/0/Pictures/WhatsTouch/1628090801008.jpg exposed beyond app through ClipData.Item.getUri() exception. Is any way to correct it or is any alternative way?

I want to get a cursor to one file only. But how?

I am new to android. I want get cursor to one file only. But how? I tried this but doesn't work and gives error.
private void getallaudioFromMySpecialFolder() {
String[] star = { "*" };
String Dir_recordedAudios= Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+File.separator+"My Audios"+File.separator;
File Directory=new File(Dir_recordedAudios);
Uri u=Uri.fromFile(Directory);
Uri uri = Uri.parse(u.toString());
Cursor musiccursor = managedQuery(uri, star,null, null, null);
if (musiccursor!= null) {
if (musiccursor.moveToFirst()) {
do {
String duration = musiccursor.getString(musiccursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DURATION));
String str_duration=CalTotalTime(Integer.valueOf(duration));
String path= musiccursor.getString(musiccursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA));
Log.d("************", "**************");
Log.d("path",path);
Log.d("totalTime", str_duration);
} while (musiccursor.moveToNext());
}
musiccursor.close();
}
}

I finally Find my question solving . If we want cursor to a special file,first in Projection array determine aour fileds for projection. And we must define aur file which want fetching its info.
We use of a statement with "LIKE" word for selection. Code is here. Too,I learned that using from CursorLoader is better.because managedQuery method is deprecated.
Code is here:
String name="";
String duration="";
String path="";
Log.d("Loading file: " + filepath,"");
// This returns us content://media/external/videos/media (or something like that)
// I pass in "external" because that's the MediaStore's name for the external
// storage on my device (the other possibility is "internal")
Uri audiosUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.getContentUri("external");
Log.d("audiosUri = " + audiosUri.toString(),"");
String[] projection = {MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA,MediaStore.Audio.Media.DISPLAY_NAME,MediaStore.Audio.Media.DURATION};
// TODO This will break if we have no matching item in the MediaStore.
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(audiosUri, projection, MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA + " LIKE ?", new String[] { filepath }, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
path =cursor.getString( cursor.getColumnIndex(projection[0]));
name=cursor.getString( cursor.getColumnIndex(projection[1]));
int iduration = cursor.getColumnIndex(projection[2]);
duration=CalTotalTime(Integer.valueOf(iduration));
Log.d("pathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", path);
Log.d("nameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", name);
Log.d("duration", duration);
cursor.close();
And this is a formal of CursorLoader .May be helps you.
private String getRealPathFromURI(Uri contentUri) {
String[] proj = { MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA };
CursorLoader loader = new CursorLoader(mContext, contentUri, proj, null, null, null);
Cursor cursor = loader.loadInBackground();
int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(proj[0]);
cursor.moveToFirst();
return cursor.getString(column_index);
}

Android - MediaStore.Video.query() is returning null

I'm trying to retrieve the metadata from a video file (title, language, artist) using the method MediaStore.Video.query(). However, the method is always returning null. The code is bellow:
String[] columns = {
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns._ID,
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.TITLE,
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.ARTIST
};
Cursor cursor = MediaStore.Video.query(getApplicationContext().getContentResolver(), videoUri,columns);
if (cursor != null) {
cursor.moveToNext();
}
String title = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.TITLE));
Any suggestion about how to return video metadata using android?
==Update
As I searched in many places, I tried one solution using CursorLoader. However, the method loadInBackground() from CursorLoader is also returning null. The code is showed bellow:
String[] columns = {
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.TITLE
};
Uri videoUri = Uri.parse("content://mnt/sdcard/Movies/landscapes.mp4");
CursorLoader loader = new CursorLoader(getBaseContext(), videoUri, columns, null, null, null);
Cursor cursor = loader.loadInBackground();
cursor.moveToFirst();
String title = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.TITLE));

Uri.parse("content://mnt/sdcard/Movies/landscapes.mp4") is not an Uri for MediaStore. It would try to find a ContentProvider for authority mnt which does not exist.
MediaStore can handle only content://media/... Uris which you should get exclusively via MediaStore, not by using Uri.parse().
In your case use the following for example
Uri uri = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String[] columns = {
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns._ID,
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.TITLE,
MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.ARTIST
};
String selection = MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.DATA + "=?";
String selectionArgs[] = { "/mnt/sdcard/Movies/landscapes.mp4" };
Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, columns, selection, selectionArgs, null);
The MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.DATA field holds the path to the videos and you search for a certain video this way. At least for now, future versions of Android may change that.
Your second example is using CursorLoader the wrong way. If you call loader.loadInBackground() yourself, you load the data in foreground. See e.g. http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-sdk_loading-data_cursorloader/
The next thing you do is
Cursor cursor = getCursor();
cursor.moveToFirst();
String title = cursor.getString(/* some index */);
This will lead to a CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException if your cursor has 0 rows and cursor.moveToFirst() failed because there is no first row. The cursor stays before the first row (at -1) and that index does not exist. That would mean in your case that the file was not found in the database.
To prevent that use the return value of moveToFirst - it will only be true if there is a first row.
Cursor cursor = getCursor(); // from somewhere
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
String title = cursor.getString(/* some index */);
}
A more complete example including checks for null and closing the cursor in all cases
Cursor cursor = getCursor(); // from somewhere
String title = "not found";
if (cursor != null) {
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
title = cursor.getString(/* some index */);
}
cursor.close();
}
I guess the file you try to find is either not indexed in the database (rebooting forces the indexer to run again) or the path is wrong.
Or the path you use is actually a symlink in which case MediaStore might use a different path.
Use this to get rid of symlinks
String path = "/mnt/sdcard/Movies/landscapes.mp4";
try {
path = new File(path).getCanonicalPath();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Yes, I tested now and it is throwing IndexOutOfBoundsException. When I'm using cursor.getColumnCount() it returns 1
cursor.getColumnCount() is the column count, not the row count. It should always be the same as the number of columns you requested in columns. You need to check cursor.getCount() if you want to check the row count.
Try dumping all the videos known to MediaStore into logcat in case it does not show as expected.
public static void dumpVideos(Context context) {
Uri uri = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.DATA };
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
int vidsCount = 0;
if (c != null) {
vidsCount = c.getCount();
while (c.moveToNext()) {
Log.d("VIDEO", c.getString(0));
}
c.close();
}
Log.d("VIDEO", "Total count of videos: " + vidsCount);
}

I updated your code, it works, just check it
public static void dumpVideos(Context context) {
Uri uri = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Video.VideoColumns.DATA };
Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
int vidsCount = 0;
if (c != null) {
c.moveToFirst();
vidsCount = c.getCount();
do {
Log.d("VIDEO", c.getString(0));
}while (c.moveToNext());
c.close();
}
Log.d("VIDEO", "Total count of videos: " + vidsCount);
}

Obtaining thumbnails for images in android using ContentResolver and Cursor

The following is my code for obtaining a thumbnail of a given image.
As of now, the exception that I'm getting is 'Cursor out of bounds'
I think that may be because I am not appending the image URL anywhere. I'm a little confused as to where to do that.
So 2 questions:
1. Where do I use the image URL of which I want to obtain a thumbnail
2. The for loop which is supposed to print column names prints nothing except the first statement 'COLUMN NAMES'
//get the corresponding thumbnail
String lastImageTakenPath = MyActivity.this.savedInstanceStateVariable.getString("lastImageTaken");
System.out.println("previous image is "+ lastImageTakenPath);
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
if(cr != null){
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media._ID };
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,projection,null,null,null);
//Cursor cursor = cr.query(lastImageTakenURI, null, null, null, null);
//Activity.startManagingCursor(cursor);
if(cursor != null){
String[] columnNames = cursor.getColumnNames();
System.out.println("COLUMN NAMES");
for(int i=0;i<columnNames.length; i++){
System.out.println(columnNames[i]);
}
/* 1. get the id of the image
* 2. use this id in the call, getThumbnails on MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails to obtain the
thumbnail
3.set the imageview's src to this thumbnail */
int imageID = cursor.getInt( cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID) );
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath( MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, Integer.toString(imageID) );
// Get original image ID
String url = uri.toString();
int originalImageId = Integer.parseInt(url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("/") + 1, url.length()));
// Get (or create upon demand) the micro thumbnail for the original image.
thumbnailLastImage = MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(cr, originalImageId, MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND,null);
thumbnailImage.setImageBitmap(thumbnailLastImage);
}
else{
System.out.println("Cursor is NULL");
}
}
else{
Log.d(TAG,"ContentResolver is NULL");
}

I believe your test of if(cursor != null) is incorrect or at least insufficient. If the result of the query returns no thumbnails then you will still get a cursor where cursor.getCount() == 0 you may want to use that as your test.