Android Question Content chooser problem

[jotajota52]

Hi!
We have a b4a app that uses the content chooser to let the user select a database (sqlite .db file)
Works fine, but we have one user that is having a problem.
The normal uri we get from the content chooser is like this:
content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3ASAFO%2FMidata%207-3-2022.db

This particular user gets this uri:
content://0@media/external/file/10814

And we have noticed that the content chooser in his tablet has radio buttons to select the file and a "done" button on the bottom.
What we believe is that this user is not using the normal content chooser on his tablet.

Any ideas on how to configure this?

 

[AnandGupta]

This particular user gets this uri:
content://0@media/external/file/10814

Try saving this uri in internal folder as test.db and see if it is okay.

 

[jotajota52]

Thanks for the idea Anand!
The uri parser is no good in this case, is there any other way to get the file's name ?

 

[Erel]

Parsing the uri is always a bad idea. Correct solution is demonstrated here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-save-and-load-external-files.132731/#content

 

[jotajota52]

Parsing the uri is always a bad idea. Correct solution is demonstrated here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-save-and-load-external-files.132731/#content

Thank you Erel, but I'm using the ExtractInformationFromURI from your example.
The problem is that the uri received (content://0@media/external/file/10814) is not being resolved by the ContentResolver.

I'm going to try AnandGupta's idea to see if it works, though I have to wait a couple days 'cause I don't have access to the users tablet.

 

[Erel]

It means that no additional information is available.

 

[jotajota52]

It means that no additional information is available.

Thank you again Erel, understood!

 

[jotajota52]

It means that no additional information is available.

Well, trying to make my app the defaul app for openning .db files, the contentchooser problem got fixed.
I added this to the manifest:

'AddActivityText(Main,
'<intent-filter>
'   <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
'   <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
'   <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
'   <data android:scheme="file" />
'    <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
'    <data android:host="*" />
'    <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.*" />
'</intent-filter>)

AddActivityText(Main,
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
'<data android:scheme="file" />
'<data android:host="*" />
<data android:mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
</intent-filter>
)

It didn't work for what I intended, but it fixed the problem I was having with the ContentChooser. Now I can use the Resolver and get all the info from the uri.

Regards,
George