How To Get The File Path For The Picked Files From The External Storage In Android?

I am facing the issues in picking the file path of the file, i searched for all over the stack overflow but the issue is not solved .Code for picking the files from the device is

Solution 1:

How to get the correct file path for the picked file ?

You don't. There is no file. ACTION_GET_CONTENT has little to do with files. It has everything to do with content.

Use ContentResolver and openInputStream() to work with the content identified by the Uri. For uploading, either:

• Give the InputStream to the uploading API, if it can upload from that, or

• Use the InputStream and a FileOutputStream to some file that you control (e.g., in getCacheDir()) to make a copy of the content, then upload from your local copy