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pinker
pinker

Reputation: 1293

Android: open folder dialog

I have the following code to open a folder in Android, and although I see a lot of posts mentioning it works I am unable to get it working.

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"myFolder");
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(f);
intent.setDataAndType(uri, "*/*");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Open folder"));

It just opens the root folder (in this case, /storage/sdcard and not /storage/sdcard/myfolder).

Anyone knows why?

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 524

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007534

ACTION_GET_CONTENT is not documented to use the Uri portion of an Intent. While there may be some apps with activities that support ACTION_GET_CONTENT, many will not.

Moreover, Android does not really work with "folders", and so there will not necessarily be any app on a device that will allow you to browse arbitrary stuff.

You are welcome to use the Storage Access Framework on Android 4.4+, which is Google's approach to dealing with a central system UI for the users browsing content from multiple sources.

Or, there are plenty of file and directory picker libraries for Android.

Upvotes: 1

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