android os FileUriExposedException file storage emulated 0 test txt exposed beyond app through Intent getData

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The app is crashing when I m trying to open a file  It works below Android Nougat  but on Android Nougat it crashes  It only crashes when I try to open a file from the SD card  not from the system partition  Some permission problem   Sample code   File file   new File   storage emulated 0 test txt    Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   intent setDataAndType Uri fromFile file    text      intent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK   startActivity intent      Crashes on this line   Log       android os FileUriExposedException    file    storage emulated 0 test txt exposed beyond app through   Intent getData     Edit   When targeting Android Nougat  file    URIs are not allowed anymore  We should use content    URIs instead  However  my app needs to open files in root directories  Any ideas

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If your app targets API 24   and you still want need to use file    intents  you can use hacky way to disable the runtime check   if Build VERSION SDK INT gt  24      try        Method m   StrictMode class getMethod  disableDeathOnFileUriExposure          m invoke null       catch Exception e         e printStackTrace             Method StrictMode disableDeathOnFileUriExposure is hidden and documented as         Used by lame internal apps that haven t done the hard work to get   themselves off file    Uris yet       Problem is that my app is not lame  but rather doesn t want to be crippled by using content    intents which are not understood by many apps out there  For example  opening mp3 file with content    scheme offers much fewer apps than when opening same over file    scheme  I don t want to pay for Google s design faults by limiting my app s functionality   Google wants developers to use content scheme  but the system is not prepared for this  for years apps were made to use Files not  content   files can be edited and saved back  while files served over content scheme can t be  can they

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If your targetSdkVersion is 24 or higher  you can not use file  Uri values in Intents on Android 7 0  devices   Your choices are    Drop your targetSdkVersion to 23 or lower  or Put your content on internal storage  then use FileProvider to make it available selectively to other apps   For example   Intent i new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  FileProvider getUriForFile this  AUTHORITY  f     i addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION   startActivity i      from this sample project

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Try this solution  PUT THESE PERMISSIONS IN MANIFEST    lt uses-permission android name  android permission READ EXTERNAL STORAGE    gt    lt uses-permission android name  android permission CAMERA    gt    INTENT TO CAPTURE IMAGE  Intent takePictureIntent   new Intent MediaStore ACTION IMAGE CAPTURE                   if  takePictureIntent resolveActivity getPackageManager       null                        startActivityForResult takePictureIntent  REQUEST IMAGE CAPTURE                       GET CAPTURED IMAGE IN ONACTIVITYRESULT   Override             protected void onActivityResult int requestCode  int resultCode  Intent data                    super onActivityResult requestCode  resultCode  data                   if  requestCode    REQUEST IMAGE CAPTURE  amp  amp  resultCode    RESULT OK                        Bundle extras   data getExtras                        Bitmap imageBitmap    Bitmap  extras get  data                           CALL THIS METHOD TO GET THE URI FROM THE BITMAP                     Uri tempUri   getImageUri getApplicationContext    imageBitmap                         DO SOMETHING WITH URI                                    METHOD TO GET IMAGE URI  public Uri getImageUri Context inContext  Bitmap inImage            ByteArrayOutputStream bytes   new ByteArrayOutputStream            inImage compress Bitmap CompressFormat JPEG  100  bytes           String path   MediaStore Images Media insertImage inContext getContentResolver    inImage   Title   null           return Uri parse path

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I spent almost a day trying to figure out why I was getting this exception  After lots of struggle  this config worked perfectly  Kotlin    AndroidManifest xml   lt provider   android name  androidx core content FileProvider    android authorities  com lomza moviesroom fileprovider    android exported  false    android grantUriPermissions  true  gt     lt meta-data     android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS      android resource   xml file paths    gt   lt  provider gt    file paths xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt paths gt     lt files-path name  movies csv files  path      gt   lt  paths gt    Intent itself  fun goToFileIntent context  Context  file  File   Intent       val intent   Intent Intent ACTION VIEW      val contentUri   FileProvider getUriForFile context     context packageName  fileprovider   file      val mimeType   context contentResolver getType contentUri      intent setDataAndType contentUri  mimeType      intent flags   Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION or Intent FLAG GRANT WRITE URI PERMISSION      return intent     I explain the whole process here

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Here my solution   in Manifest xml   lt application             android name   main MainApp              android allowBackup  true              android icon   drawable ic app              android label   string application name              android logo   drawable ic app logo              android theme   style MainAppBaseTheme  gt            lt provider                 android name  androidx core content FileProvider                  android authorities    applicationId  provider                  android exported  false                  android grantUriPermissions  true  gt               lt meta-data                     android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS                      android resource   xml provider paths   gt           lt  provider gt    in res xml provider paths xml      lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt       lt paths xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt           lt external-path name  external files  path      gt       lt  paths gt    in my fragment I has the next code    Uri myPhotoFileUri   FileProvider getUriForFile getActivity    getActivity   getApplicationContext   getPackageName       provider   myPhotoFile                      intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION       intent putExtra MediaStore EXTRA OUTPUT  myPhotoFileUri      hat s all you need   Also not need to create   public class GenericFileProvider extends FileProvider      I test on Android 5 0  6 0 and Android 9 0 and it s success work

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In my case I got rid of the exception by replacing SetDataAndType with just SetData

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palash k answer is correct and worked for internal storage files  but in my case I want to open files from external storage also  my app crashed when open file from external storage like sdcard and usb  but I manage to solve the issue by modifying provider paths xml from the accepted answer  change the provider paths xml like below   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt    lt paths xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt    lt external-path path  Android data   applicationId    name  files root    gt    lt root-path     name  root      path       gt    lt  paths gt    and in java class No change as the accepted answer just a small edit   Uri uri FileProvider getUriForFile getActivity    BuildConfig APPLICATION ID   provider   File    This help me to fix the crash for files from external storages  Hope this will help some one having same issue as mine

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Just paste the below code in activity onCreate    StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new StrictMode VmPolicy Builder    StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build       It will ignore URI exposure

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If targetSdkVersion is higher than 24  then FileProvider is used to grant access    Create an xml file Path  res xml  provider paths xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt paths xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt external-path name  external files  path      gt   lt  paths gt      Add a Provider in AndroidManifest xml       lt provider         android name  android support v4 content FileProvider          android authorities    applicationId  provider          android exported  false          android grantUriPermissions  true  gt           lt meta-data             android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS              android resource   xml provider paths   gt       lt  provider gt    If you are using androidx  the FileProvider path should be    android name  androidx core content FileProvider    and replace   Uri uri   Uri fromFile fileImagePath     to  Uri uri   FileProvider getUriForFile MainActivity this  BuildConfig APPLICATION ID     provider  fileImagePath     Edit  While you re including the URI with an Intent make sure to add below line   intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION     and you are good to go  Hope it helps

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Besides the solution using the FileProvider  there is another way to work around this  Simply put   StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new StrictMode VmPolicy Builder    StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build       in Application onCreate    In this way the VM ignores the file URI exposure   Method  builder detectFileUriExposure     enables the file exposure check  which is also the default behavior if we don t setup a VmPolicy   I encountered a problem that if I use a content    URI to send something  some apps just can t understand it  And downgrading the target SDK version is not allowed  In this case my solution is useful   Update   As mentioned in the comment  StrictMode is diagnostic tool  and is not supposed to be used for this problem  When I posted this answer a year ago  many apps can only receive File uris  They just crash when I tried to send a FileProvider uri to them  This is fixed in most apps now  so we should go with the FileProvider solution

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I used Palash s answer given above but it was somewhat incomplete  I had to provide permission like this  Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW       Uri uri      if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES N            uri   FileProvider getUriForFile this  getPackageName       provider   new File path             List lt ResolveInfo gt  resInfoList   getPackageManager   queryIntentActivities intent  PackageManager MATCH DEFAULT ONLY           for  ResolveInfo resolveInfo   resInfoList                String packageName   resolveInfo activityInfo packageName              grantUriPermission packageName  uri  Intent FLAG GRANT WRITE URI PERMISSION   Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION                  else           uri   Uri fromFile new File path               intent setDataAndType uri   application vnd android package-archive         intent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK        startActivity intent

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i put this method so imageuri path easily get in content   enter code here public Uri getImageUri Context context  Bitmap inImage        ByteArrayOutputStream bytes   new ByteArrayOutputStream        inImage compress Bitmap CompressFormat PNG  100  bytes       String path   MediaStore Images Media insertImage context getContentResolver         inImage   Title   null       return Uri parse path

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Xamarin Android  Note  The path xml provider paths xml   axml  couldn t be resolved  even after making the xml folder under Resources  maybe it can be put in an existing location like Values  didn t try   so I resorted to this which works for now  Testing showed that it  only needs to be called once per application run  which makes sense being that it changes the operational state of the host VM    Note  xml needs to be capitalized  so Resources Xml provider paths xml  Java Lang ClassLoader cl    this Context ClassLoader  Java Lang Class strictMode   cl LoadClass  android os StrictMode                    System IntPtr ptrStrictMode   JNIEnv FindClass  android os StrictMode    var method   JNIEnv GetStaticMethodID ptrStrictMode   disableDeathOnFileUriExposure      V                    JNIEnv CallStaticVoidMethod strictMode Handle  method

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add this two line in onCreate  StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new StrictMode VmPolicy Builder        StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build       Share method  File dir   new File Environment getExternalStorageDirectory     ColorStory    File imgFile   new File dir   0 png    Intent sendIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   sendIntent setType  image      sendIntent setAction Intent ACTION SEND   sendIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA STREAM  Uri parse  file       imgFile    sendIntent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION   startActivity Intent createChooser sendIntent   Share images

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My Solution was to  Uri parse  the File Path as String  instead of using Uri fromFile    String storage   Environment getExternalStorageDirectory   toString      quot  test txt quot   File file   new File storage   Uri uri  if  Build VERSION SDK INT  lt  24        uri   Uri fromFile file     else       uri   Uri parse file getPath        My work-around for new SDKs  worked for me in Android 10 using Solid Explorer Text Editor as the external editor    Intent viewFile   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   viewFile setDataAndType uri   quot text plain quot    startActivity viewFile    Seems that fromFile   uses A file pointer  which I suppose could be insecure when memory addresses are exposed to all apps  But A file path String never hurt anybody  so it works without throwing FileUriExposedException  Tested on API levels 9 to 29  Successfully opens the text file for editing in another app  Does not require FileProvider  nor the Android Support Library at all

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Just paste the below code in activity onCreate     StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new StrictMode VmPolicy Builder     StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build       It will ignore URI exposure   Happy coding  -

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https   developer android com reference androidx core content FileProvider This link provides all the solutions for all the situations  make sure to read permission granting section through Intent and to package as per requirement  should use below link for api lt 24 https   developer android com reference android support v4 content FileProvider html to know more about the exception visit this link https   developer android com reference android os FileUriExposedException

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First you need to add a provider to your AndroidManifest     lt application         gt       lt activity gt                 lt  activity gt       lt provider         android name  android support v4 content FileProvider          android authorities  com your package fileProvider          android grantUriPermissions  true          android exported  false  gt           lt meta-data             android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS              android resource   xml file paths    gt       lt  provider gt     lt  application gt    now create a file in xml resource folder  if using android studio you can hit Alt   Enter after highlighting file paths and select create a xml resource option   Next in the file paths file enter   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt paths gt     lt external-path path  Android data com your package   name  files root    gt     lt external-path path     name  external storage root    gt   lt  paths gt    This example is for external-path you can refere here for more options  This will allow you to share files which are in that folder and its sub-folder    Now all that s left is to create the intent as follows       MimeTypeMap mime   MimeTypeMap getSingleton        String ext   newFile getName   substring newFile getName   lastIndexOf        1       String type   mime getMimeTypeFromExtension ext       try           Intent intent   new Intent            intent setAction Intent ACTION VIEW           if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES N                intent setFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION               Uri contentUri   FileProvider getUriForFile getContext     com your package fileProvider   newFile               intent setDataAndType contentUri  type             else               intent setDataAndType Uri fromFile newFile   type                     startActivityForResult intent  ACTIVITY VIEW ATTACHMENT         catch  ActivityNotFoundException anfe            Toast makeText getContext     No activity found to open this attachment    Toast LENGTH LONG  show            EDIT  I added the root folder of the sd card in the file paths  I have tested this code and it does work

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Just paste the below code in activity onCreate       StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new   StrictMode VmPolicy Builder      StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build       It will ignore URI exposure

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If your targetSdkVersion  gt   24  then we have to use FileProvider class to give access to the particular file or folder to make them accessible for other apps  We create our own class inheriting FileProvider in order to make sure our FileProvider doesn t conflict with FileProviders declared in imported dependencies as described here  Steps to replace file    URI with content    URI   Add a FileProvider  lt provider gt  tag in AndroidManifest xml under  lt application gt  tag  Specify a unique authority for the android authorities attribute to avoid conflicts  imported dependencies might specify   applicationId  provider and other commonly used authorities    lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot  encoding  quot utf-8 quot   gt   lt manifest xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot               lt application                      lt provider             android name  quot androidx core content FileProvider quot              android authorities  quot   applicationId  provider quot              android exported  quot false quot              android grantUriPermissions  quot true quot  gt               lt meta-data                 android name  quot android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS quot                  android resource  quot  xml provider paths quot    gt           lt  provider gt       lt  application gt   lt  manifest gt    Then create a provider paths xml file in res xml folder  A folder may be needed to be created if it doesn t exist yet  The content of the file is shown below  It describes that we would like to share access to the External Storage at root folder  path  quot   quot   with the name external files    lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot  encoding  quot utf-8 quot   gt   lt paths gt       lt external-path name  quot external files quot  path  quot   quot   gt   lt  paths gt    The final step is to change the line of code below in  Uri photoURI   Uri fromFile createImageFile      to  Uri photoURI   FileProvider getUriForFile context  context getApplicationContext   getPackageName      quot  provider quot   createImageFile       Edit  If you re using an intent to make the system open your file  you may need to add the following line of code   intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION      Please refer to the full code and solution that have been explained here

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As of Android N  in order to work around this issue  you need to use the FileProvider API   There are 3 main steps here as mentioned below  Step 1  Manifest Entry   lt manifest     gt       lt application     gt           lt provider             android name  android support v4 content FileProvider              android authorities    applicationId  provider              android exported  false              android grantUriPermissions  true  gt               lt meta-data                 android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS                  android resource   xml provider paths   gt           lt  provider gt       lt  application gt   lt  manifest gt    Step 2  Create XML file res xml provider paths xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt paths xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt external-path name  external files  path      gt   lt  paths gt    Step 3  Code changes  File file        Intent install   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   install setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY CLEAR TOP   Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK      Old Approach     install setDataAndType Uri fromFile file   mimeType      End Old approach    New Approach     Uri apkURI   FileProvider getUriForFile                               context                                context getApplicationContext                                 getPackageName       provider   file       install setDataAndType apkURI  mimeType       install addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION      End New Approach     context startActivity install

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I don t know why  I did everything exactly the same as Pkosta  https   stackoverflow com a 38858040   but kept getting error   java lang SecurityException  Permission Denial  opening provider redacted from ProcessRecord redacted   redacted  that is not exported from uid redacted  I wasted hours on this issue  The culprit  Kotlin   val playIntent   Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  uri  intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION    intent was actually setting getIntent   addFlags instead of operating on my newly declared playIntent

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https   stackoverflow com a 38858040 395097 this answer is complete    This answer is for - you already have an app which was targeting below 24  and now you are upgrading to targetSDKVersion    24   In Android N  only the file uri exposed to 3rd party app is changed   Not the way we were using it before   So change only the places where you are sharing the path with 3rd party app  Camera in my case   In our app we were sending uri to Camera app  in that location we are expecting the camera app to store the captured image    For android N  we generate new Content    uri based url pointing to file  We generate usual File api based path for the same  using older method     Now we have 2 different uri for same file   1 is shared with Camera app  If the camera intent is success  we can access the image from  2   Hope this helps

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I know this is a pretty old question but this answer is for future viewers  So I ve encountered a similar problem and after researching  I ve found an alternative to this approach    Your Intent here for eg  To view your image from your path in Kotlin    val intent   Intent    intent setAction Intent ACTION VIEW   val file   File currentUri   intent setFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION   val contentURI   getContentUri context    file absolutePath   intent setDataAndType contentURI  image      startActivity intent    Main Function below  private fun getContentUri context Context  absPath String  Uri            val cursor   context getContentResolver   query              MediaStore Images Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI              arrayOf lt String gt  MediaStore Images Media  ID               MediaStore Images Media DATA                      arrayOf lt String gt  absPath   null          if  cursor    null  amp  amp  cursor moveToFirst                          val id   cursor getInt cursor getColumnIndex MediaStore MediaColumns  ID               return Uri withAppendedPath MediaStore Images Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI  Integer toString id                     else if   absPath isEmpty                          val values   ContentValues               values put MediaStore Images Media DATA  absPath              return context getContentResolver   insert                  MediaStore Images Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI  values                    else                       return null                   Likewise  instead of an image  you can use any other file format like pdf and in my case  it worked just fine

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Using the fileProvider is the way to go  But you can use this simple workaround      WARNING  It will be fixed in next Android release -   https   issuetracker google com issues 37122890 comment4   replace   startActivity intent     by  startActivity Intent createChooser intent   Your title

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For downloading pdf from server   add below code in your service class  Hope this is helpful for you   File file   new File Environment getExternalStoragePublicDirectory Environment DIRECTORY DOWNLOADS   fileName     pdf        intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW         Log e  pathOpen   file getPath          Uri contentUri      contentUri   Uri fromFile file       intent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY CLEAR TOP   Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK        if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   24             Uri apkURI   FileProvider getUriForFile context  context getApplicationContext   getPackageName       provider   file           intent setDataAndType apkURI   application pdf            intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION          else            intent setDataAndType contentUri   application pdf            And yes   don t forget to add permissions and provider in your manifest    lt uses-permission android name  android permission INTERNET    gt   lt uses-permission android name  android permission WRITE EXTERNAL STORAGE    gt   lt uses-permission android name  android permission READ EXTERNAL STORAGE    gt    lt application   lt provider         android name  android support v4 content FileProvider          android authorities    applicationId  provider          android exported  false          android grantUriPermissions  true  gt           lt meta-data             android name  android support FILE PROVIDER PATHS              android resource   xml provider paths    gt       lt  provider gt    lt  application gt

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Simply let it ignore the URI Exposure    Add it after on create  StrictMode VmPolicy Builder builder   new StrictMode VmPolicy Builder    StrictMode setVmPolicy builder build

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Pkosta  s answer is one way of doing this    Besides using FileProvider  you can also insert the file into MediaStore  especially for image and video files   because files in MediaStore are accessible to every app      The MediaStore is primarily aimed at video  audio and image MIME types  however beginning with Android 3 0  API level 11  it can also store non-media types  see MediaStore Files for more info   Files can be inserted into the MediaStore using scanFile   after which a content    style Uri suitable for sharing is passed to the provided onScanCompleted   callback  Note that once added to the system MediaStore the content is accessible to any app on the device    For example  you can insert a video file to MediaStore like this   ContentValues values   new ContentValues    values put MediaStore Video Media DATA  videoFilePath   Uri contentUri   context getContentResolver   insert        MediaStore Video Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI  values     contentUri is like content   media external video media 183473  which can be passed directly to Intent putExtra   intent setType  video      intent putExtra Intent EXTRA STREAM  contentUri   intent addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION   activity startActivity intent     This works for me  and save the hassles of using FileProvider

[android] android.os.FileUriExposedException: file:///storage/emulated/0/test.txt exposed beyond app through Intent.getData()

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