android - Getting the Absolute File Path from Content URI for searched images

Question

I am trying to share images from other applications to my application using implicit intent ACTION_SEND.

While sharing search images from chrome browser, app receives intent with a Content URI like this: content://com.android.chrome.FileProvider/images/screenshot/1457448067808912906311.jpg

How can I fetch file path from this type of Content URI? All other apps like Facebook, Google+ are doing it. I am using FileChooser for getting file path of other types of Content URIs (eg. from Gallery).

Tried looking everywhere, without much help. Can someone suggest how to work with these Content URIs?

Answer 1

If you absolutely need a local copy of the file, you are going to need to open the InputStream copy the contents to a local file that you know the path to and then go from there. Sidenote: Guava's ByteStreams#copy is an easy way to accomplish this.

Of course this file is no longer backed by the original Uri source, so I don't think this is what you want. Instead, you should work with the Uri's intended API. Take a look at the Storage Access Framework

Edit

Here is how you can get an InputStream from your Uri

InputStream inputStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);