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androidcommonsware-cwacandroid-fileproviderandroid-7.0-nougat
joshkendrick
joshkendrick

Reputation: 3547

Does Android's FileProvider actually support external-files-path?

I've run into the FileUriExposedException stuff where you try to send a file:/// Uri to another app (in this case the camera), and I should be using a FileProvider instead (causes a crash on api 24 Nougat).

In our app, we generate a File using Context's getExternalFilesDir(String) method:

context.getExternalFilesDir("attachments");

The FileProvider documentation leads me to believe I should be using external-files-path in my paths.xml if I want the functionality to be the same as is now.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths>
    <external-files-path
        name="attachments"
        path="attachments/" />
</paths>

But after googling some more, I found a few things that make me think there's issues with FileProvider, or at least FileProvider's documentation...

So

  1. Am I right in thinking I should use external-files-path if I want to match how my app currently works?
  2. Is the documentation/FileProvider really broken/incorrect and I should use something like cwac-provider instead?

UPDATE

For completeness, as @CommonsWare recommended below, using the 24.2.0 version of support-v4 is working for me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 846

Answers (2)

SanthoshN
SanthoshN

Reputation: 629

I had similar scenario of sharing a private file to the camera to upload full quality image without putting a permission to WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE.

I was able to make it work by using the as follows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths>
    <external-path
        name="my_images"
        path="Android/data/com.santhoshn.appprivateimageupload/files/Pictures" />
</paths>

Here is the working sample app https://github.com/santbob/AppPrivateImageUpload

Upvotes: 0

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007554

Am I right in thinking I should use external-files-path if I want to match how my app currently works?

Yes. Though do note that getExternalFilesDir() does not officially support "attachments" as a parameter, so do not be surprised if your app breaks someday.

Is the documentation/FileProvider really broken/incorrect

Well, I see the code for external-files-path support in the sources JAR for 24.2.0 of the new support-core-utils artifact. support-v4, as of 24.2.0, has been subdivided into a series of separate artifacts, and FileProvider lives in support-core-utils.

So, try using 24.2.0 of support-v4 (or support-core-utils if you do not need all of support-v4).

Upvotes: 2

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