Get content uri from file path in android

Question

I know the absolute path of an image  say for eg   sdcard cats jpg    Is there any way to get the content uri for this file     Actually in my code  I download an image and save it at a particular location  In order to set the image in an ImageView instance  currently I open the file using the path  get the bytes and create a bitmap and then set the bitmap in the ImageView instance  This is a very slow process  instead if I could get the content uri then I could very easily use the method    imageView setImageUri uri

User · Answer

Is better to use a validation to support versions pre Android N, example:

  if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >=  Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
     imageUri = Uri.parse(filepath);
  } else{
     imageUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(filepath));
  }

  if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >=  Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
     ImageView.setImageURI(Uri.parse(new File("/sdcard/cats.jpg").toString()));         
  } else{
     ImageView.setImageURI(Uri.fromFile(new File("/sdcard/cats.jpg")));
  }

https://es.stackoverflow.com/questions/71443/reporte-crash-android-os-fileuriexposedexception-en-android-n

User · Answer

This code works for images on 2 2  not sure if any other media types            Your file path - Example here is   sdcard cats jpg     final String filePathThis   imagePaths get position  toString        MediaScannerConnectionClient mediaScannerClient   new    MediaScannerConnectionClient         private MediaScannerConnection msc   null                msc   new MediaScannerConnection getApplicationContext    this           msc connect               public void onMediaScannerConnected            msc scanFile filePathThis  null               public void onScanCompleted String path  Uri uri              This is where you get your content uri             Log d TAG  uri toString             msc disconnect

User · Answer

Try with   ImageView setImageURI Uri fromFile new File   sdcard cats jpg        Or with   ImageView setImageURI Uri parse new File   sdcard cats jpg   toString

User · Answer

Easiest and the robust way for creating Content Uri content    from a File is to use FileProvider  Uri provided by FileProvider can be used also providing Uri for sharing files with other apps too  To get File Uri from a absolute path of File you can use DocumentFile fromFile new File path  name    it s added in Api 22  and returns null for versions below   File imagePath   new File Context getFilesDir     images    File newFile   new File imagePath   default image jpg    Uri contentUri   getUriForFile getContext     com mydomain fileprovider   newFile

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UPDATE  Here it is assumed that your media  Image Video  is already added to content media provider  If not then you will not able to get the content URL as exact what you want  Instead there will be file Uri   I had same question for my file explorer activity  You should know that the contenturi for file only supports mediastore data like image  audio and video  I am giving you the code for getting image content uri from selecting an image from sdcard  Try this code  maybe it will work for you    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    quot     quot         new String     filePath    null     if  cursor    null  amp  amp  cursor moveToFirst          int id   cursor getInt cursor getColumnIndex MediaStore MediaColumns  ID        cursor close        return Uri withAppendedPath MediaStore Images Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI   quot  quot    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               For support android Q 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    quot     quot           new String   filePath   null   if  cursor    null  amp  amp  cursor moveToFirst          int id   cursor getInt cursor getColumnIndex MediaStore MediaColumns  ID        cursor close        return Uri withAppendedPath MediaStore Images Media EXTERNAL CONTENT URI   quot  quot    id     else       if  imageFile exists              if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES Q                ContentResolver resolver   context getContentResolver                Uri picCollection   MediaStore Images Media                      getContentUri MediaStore VOLUME EXTERNAL PRIMARY               ContentValues picDetail   new ContentValues                picDetail put MediaStore Images Media DISPLAY NAME  imageFile getName                 picDetail put MediaStore Images Media MIME TYPE   quot image jpg quot                picDetail put MediaStore Images Media RELATIVE PATH  quot DCIM  quot    UUID randomUUID   toString                 picDetail put MediaStore Images Media IS PENDING 1               Uri finaluri   resolver insert picCollection  picDetail               picDetail clear                picDetail put MediaStore Images Media IS PENDING  0               resolver update picCollection  picDetail  null  null               return finaluri           else               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

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Obtaining the File ID without writing any code  just with adb shell CLI commands   adb shell content query --uri  content   media external video media    grep FILE NAME   grep -Eo    id   0-9        grep -Eo   0-9

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The accepted solution is probably the best bet for your purposes  but to actually answer the question in the subject line   In my app  I have to get the path from URIs and get the URI from paths   The former          Gets the corresponding path to a file from the given content    URI     param selectedVideoUri The content    URI to find the file path from     param contentResolver The content resolver to use to perform the query      return the file path as a string     private String getFilePathFromContentUri Uri selectedVideoUri          ContentResolver contentResolver        String filePath      String   filePathColumn    MediaColumns DATA        Cursor cursor   contentResolver query selectedVideoUri  filePathColumn  null  null  null       cursor moveToFirst         int columnIndex   cursor getColumnIndex filePathColumn 0        filePath   cursor getString columnIndex       cursor close        return filePath      The latter  which I do for videos  but can also be used for Audio or Files or other types of stored content by substituting MediaStore Audio  etc  for MediaStore Video           Gets the MediaStore video ID of a given file on external storage     param filePath The path  on external storage  of the file to resolve the ID of     param contentResolver The content resolver to use to perform the query      return the video ID as a long     private long getVideoIdFromFilePath String filePath          ContentResolver contentResolver          long videoId      Log d TAG  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 videosUri   MediaStore Video Media getContentUri  external         Log d TAG  videosUri       videosUri toString          String   projection    MediaStore Video VideoColumns  ID           TODO This will break if we have no matching item in the MediaStore      Cursor cursor   contentResolver query videosUri  projection  MediaStore Video VideoColumns DATA     LIKE     new String     filePath    null       cursor moveToFirst         int columnIndex   cursor getColumnIndex projection 0        videoId   cursor getLong columnIndex        Log d TAG  Video ID is     videoId       cursor close        return videoId      Basically  the DATA column of MediaStore  or whichever sub-section of it you re querying  stores the file path  so you use that info to look it up

User · Answer

You can use these two ways based on use  Uri uri   Uri parse  String file location     or  Uri uri   Uri fromFile new File  string file location      I have tried both ways and both works

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U can try below code snippet       public Uri getUri ContentResolver cr  String path       Uri mediaUri   MediaStore Files getContentUri VOLUME NAME       Cursor ca   cr query mediaUri  new String     MediaStore MediaColumns  ID    MediaStore MediaColumns DATA         new String    path   null       if  ca    null  amp  amp  ca moveToFirst              int id   ca getInt ca getColumnIndex MediaStore MediaColumns  ID            ca close            return  MediaStore Files getContentUri VOLUME NAME id             if ca    null            ca close              return null

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Its late  but may help someone in future   To get content URI for a file  you may use the following method   FileProvider getUriForFile Context context  String authority  File file   It returns the content URI   Check this out to learn how to setup a FileProvider

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