Not Working for Google Drive Uri

[ghost]

When user have selected file from Google drive, we cannot access original file path from that Uri. Working for Google Photos Uri. Not working when users have selected document/pdf file from Google Drive

[amrutbidri]

Any solution to this? or found any workaround on it?

[ghost]

I couldn't found any. May be we need to manage by drive sdks.

I restricted user to choose from Drive though.

[kk121]

I have created a pull request(#97) for this issue. Till then you can use codes in last 3 commits of this forked library: https://github.com/kk121/aFileChooser

[lorenzos]

I found a workaround for when file is not "local" (i.e. when FileUtils.getFile and FileUtils.getPath return null or FileUtils.isLocal is false), which is applicable for file selection from Drive #90, Google Photos #98, etc. The trick is to use a file descriptor instead of direct access, for example using something like this inside the usual onActivityResult():

try {

    final Uri uri = data.getData();
    final FileInputStream fileInputStream;
    final File file = FileUtils.getFile(this, uri);

    // Local file
    if (file != null) {
        fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);

    // Access to remote file (Google Photos, Drive, ...)
    } else {
        final ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor = getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uri, "r");
        if (fileDescriptor != null) {
            fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(fileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor());
        } else {
            throw new IOException("Cannot open file descriptor from URI");
        }
    }

    // The following is just an example to test that the file is in fact readable
    final byte[] buffer = new byte[50];
    fileInputStream.read(buffer);
    fileInputStream.close();
    Toast.makeText(this, "Read: " + new String(buffer), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

} catch (IOException e) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Error: " + e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    e.printStackTrace();
}