I have an application where when I press on a button it should open the folder picker and allow the user to browse and select a folder ONLY. Then I want to get the folder's path so that I can do some manipulation with it.
I've tried using this code:
val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT)
intent.type = "*/*"
startActivityForResult(intent, 8778)
But it doesn't work.
Can you please help by providing me with some code?
it should open the folder picker and allow the user to browse and select a folder ONLY
The closest thing that Android has to something like that is ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE. This allows the user to pick a document tree, which could be a directory on the filesystem, something offered by a cloud storage provider, or other document tree structures.
Then i want to get the folder's path so that i can do some manipulation with it.
If by "path" you mean "filesystem path", you have two problems:
A document tree is not necessarily a directory on the filesystem, and you have no reliable means of getting a filesystem path for one
You have no access to arbitrary filesystem locations on Android Q (by default) and Android R+ (for all apps)
You may want to spend some time learning about the Storage Access Framework in general and ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE in particular.