Android Question Getting the uri of a file in the app's assets folder

rleiman

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Greetings,

I would like to get the uri of a file that resides in my app's assets folder. Can you point me to a link that describes how it's done?

I saw many posts on the forum that shows code like this but none of the posts actually shows the coding behind GetFileUri sub routine.

B4X: 
Log(GetFileUri(File.DirAssets & "/my_music.mp3"))

Thanks.
 
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JohnC

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You can not share any files from the asset folder directly.

You need to modify your app to be a file provider and then copy the file from the asset folder to the shared directory, then create a URI to the file in the shared directory, then you can share it:

[class] FileProvider - share files

Edit: FileProvider is included as an internal library now. After investigating several issues with the current FileProvider code that you can find in the forum, I decided to make some improvements and implement it in a class. Starting from Android 7 (API 24) you cannot directly share file uris...
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