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How File Chooser works in Android Studio

In this tutorial we will discuss How File Chooser works in Android Studio . File Chooser allow users to select a file which is in phone memory.

Layout

In activity_main layout we take an ImageView and a textview. When we upload image then in textview we show file name and file path.

AndroidManifest

we need to provide permission for read external storage so we added permission.

MainActivity

In MainActivity we ask for permission and if there is already permission we can pick file. We are creeating new Intent ACTION_GET_CONTENT. we also added CATEGORY_OPENABLE for open category and then call startActivityForResult.

Here we will get data in onActivityResult function and here we check if request code is equals to MY_RESULT_CODE_FILECHOOSER then we will get file data. We can fetch data from FileUtils class.If we need file name and file path then we will call FileUtils function getFilleName and getPath().

FileUtils

We can get FileName and FilePath from this class.We are using IOUtils so we need to add dependency for this.

dependency for IOUtils

Please check attached image here we pick a file and you can see we are showing file name and file path in textview.

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