Get File Path From Uri From Video Chooser

In my app I start an Intent to pick a video file like this Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT); intent.setType('video/*'); startActivityForResult(intent, kVideoPi

Solution 1:

Your Uri does not necessarily represent a file on the disk. It begins with content:// meaning it is served up by the content provider for that type of file.

You don't actually need to use a file in the filesystem here (although, you can). What you want to do is stream the data from the content provider directly to the server.

There are some good examples - I would try this one for how to do this, in the first section "How to access binary data of existing content providers"

Solution 2:

• Hello i know it is too late but recently i found the solution of same problem

  I was also facing the same problem but here is the method

  public static String getPath (final Context context, final Uri uri) {

  if (DEBUG)
          Log.d(TAG + " File -",
                  "Authority: " + uri.getAuthority() +
                          ", Fragment: " + uri.getFragment() +
                          ", Port: " + uri.getPort() +
                          ", Query: " + uri.getQuery() +
                          ", Scheme: " + uri.getScheme() +
                          ", Host: " + uri.getHost() +
                          ", Segments: " + uri.getPathSegments().toString()
                  );
  
      finalboolean isKitKat = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT;
  
      // DocumentProviderif (isKitKat && DocumentsContract.isDocumentUri(context, uri)) {
  
          // ExternalStorageProviderelseif (isExternalStorageDocument(uri)) {
              finalString docId = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
              finalString[] split = docId.split(":");
              finalString type = split[0];
  
              if ("primary".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
                  return Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/" + split[1];
              }
  
              // TODO handle non-primary volumes
          }
  
          // MediaProviderelseif (isMediaDocument(uri)) {
              finalString docId = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
              finalString[] split = docId.split(":");
              finalString type = split[0];
  
              Uri contentUri = null;
              if ("image".equals(type)) {
                  contentUri = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
              } elseif ("video".equals(type)) {
                  contentUri = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
              } elseif ("audio".equals(type)) {
                  contentUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
              }
  
              finalString selection = "_id=?";
              finalString[] selectionArgs = newString[] {
                      split[1]
              };
  
              return getDataColumn(context, contentUri, selection, selectionArgs);
          }
      }
  
  // MediaStore (and general)elseif ("content".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme())) {
  
      // Return the remote addressif (isGooglePhotosUri(uri))
          return uri.getLastPathSegment();
  
      return getDataColumn(context, uri, null, null);
  }
  // Fileelseif ("file".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme())) {
  
  
  return uri.getPath();
      }
  
      returnnull;
  }
  

which i get from this url

--> other methods can be fetched from this FILE UTILS file enjoy coding:) --> and it gets me full video path from the uri hope it helps you :)