Getting the Absolute File Path from Content URI for searched images

Question

I am trying to share images from other applications to my application using implicit intent ACTION_SEND.

While sharing search images from chrome browser, app receiv

Answer 1

How can I fetch file path from this type of Content URI?

You don't, as there does not have to be a file at all behind the Uri, let alone one that you can access. That Uri might point to:

• A local file on external storage
• A local file on internal storage for the other app
• A local file on removable storage
• A local file that is encrypted and needs to be decrypted on the fly
• A stream of bytes held in a BLOB column in a database
• A piece of content that needs to be downloaded by the other app first
• ...and so on

All other apps like Facebook, Google+ are doing it

No, they are not. They are using ContentResolver and:

• openInputStream() to read in the bytes associated with the content
• getType() to get the MIME type associated with the content
• query() and the OpenableColumns to get the size and display name associated with the content