retrieve absolute path when select image from gallery kitkat android

Question

As I am supporting my app to Kitkat version, now in this the way of retrieve file from gallery was different.

I have preferred this Android Gallery on KitKat returns

Answer 1

Pratik's solution helped me alot. Following is the version which works for me in Kitkat 4.4.2. Three things which i changed are
1) Using content resolver to get the path
2) originalUri.getLastPathSegment().split(":")[1] gives me index out of bound so i'm using index 0 instead.Its been working so far
3) Removed takeflags and check for freshest data as we are filtering the cursor with id.

try {
        Uri originalUri = data.getData();
        String pathsegment[] = originalUri.getLastPathSegment().split(":");
        String id = pathsegment[0];
        final String[] imageColumns = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
        final String imageOrderBy = null;

        Uri uri = getUri();
        Cursor imageCursor = activity.getContentResolver().query(uri, imageColumns,
                                MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + "=" + id, null, null);

        if (imageCursor.moveToFirst()) {
            value = imageCursor.getString(imageCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA));
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Toast.makeText(activity, "Failed to get image", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }