For those who are getting Error Unknown URI: content://downloads/public_downloads
.
I managed to solve this by getting a hint given by @Commonsware in this answer. I found out the class FileUtils on GitHub.
Here InputStream
methods are used to fetch file from Download
directory.
// DownloadsProvider
else if (isDownloadsDocument(uri)) {
final String id = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
if (id != null && id.startsWith("raw:")) {
return id.substring(4);
}
String[] contentUriPrefixesToTry = new String[]{
"content://downloads/public_downloads",
"content://downloads/my_downloads",
"content://downloads/all_downloads"
};
for (String contentUriPrefix : contentUriPrefixesToTry) {
Uri contentUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Uri.parse(contentUriPrefix), Long.valueOf(id));
try {
String path = getDataColumn(context, contentUri, null, null);
if (path != null) {
return path;
}
} catch (Exception e) {}
}
// path could not be retrieved using ContentResolver, therefore copy file to accessible cache using streams
String fileName = getFileName(context, uri);
File cacheDir = getDocumentCacheDir(context);
File file = generateFileName(fileName, cacheDir);
String destinationPath = null;
if (file != null) {
destinationPath = file.getAbsolutePath();
saveFileFromUri(context, uri, destinationPath);
}
return destinationPath;
}