Choosing photo using new Google Photos app is broken

Question

My app has ability to select photo from library. Exactly I want file path from this selection.

This is the code to create intent for selecting photo:

    Intent photoPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,         MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);     photoPickerIntent.setType("image/*");     startActivityForResult(photoPickerIntent, INTENT_REQUEST_CODE_SELECT_PHOTO); 

This is the code that gets file path from URI:

    Cursor cursor = null;     String path = null;     try {         String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };         cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri, projection, null, null, null);         int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(projection[0]);         cursor.moveToFirst();         path = cursor.getString(columnIndex);     } finally {         if (cursor != null) {             cursor.close();         }     }     return path; 

Before yesterday's update of Google Photos app everything worked perfectly fine. Now path is null after parsing URI.

URI is similar to this: content://com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider/0/1/content%3A%2F%2Fmedia%2Fexternal%2Fimages%2Fmedia%2F75209/ACTUAL

I also tried to create intent with Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT action - no luck.

Answer 1

Below code is working for me to get content URI on latest Google Photos as well. What i have tried is writing to temp file and return temp image URI, if it has authority in content URI.

You can try same:

private static String getImageUrlWithAuthority(Context context, Uri uri) {     InputStream is = null;      if (uri.getAuthority() != null)     {         try         {             is = context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);             Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);             return writeToTempImageAndGetPathUri(context, bmp).toString();         }         catch (FileNotFoundException e)         {             e.printStackTrace();         }         finally         {             try             {                 if (is != null)                 {                     is.close();                 }             }             catch (IOException e)             {                 e.printStackTrace();             }         }     }     return null; }  private static Uri writeToTempImageAndGetPathUri(Context inContext, Bitmap inImage) {     ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();     inImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes);     String path = MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(inContext.getContentResolver(), inImage, "Title", null);     return Uri.parse(path); } 

Answer 2

This is most certainly a workaround, but you could extract the real content URI which has apparently become embedded for some reason: content%3A%2F%2Fmedia%2Fexternal%2Fimages%2Fmedia%2F75209

I was able to create a new URI with authority=media and path=external/images/media/xxx, and content resolver returned a real URL.

Example code:

String unusablePath = contentUri.getPath(); int startIndex = unusablePath.indexOf("external/"); int endIndex = unusablePath.indexOf("/ACTUAL"); String embeddedPath = unusablePath.substring(startIndex, endIndex);  Uri.Builder builder = contentUri.buildUpon(); builder.path(embeddedPath); builder.authority("media"); Uri newUri = builder.build();