androidandroid-permissionsread-writefilepickerandroid-13

How to pick a document in android 13

I have tried picking documents and applied check that if file exist or not it always return false. It means I can't read file I have tried doing this with SAF ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE and ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT

I can get URI and getting path from uri as fileUri.path then i got error that file or directory don't exist also I have tried to get file path with other way PathUtils class but it always return null.

What I am missing or is there any other way to read documents without having all files access permission.

Solution

  • ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT gives you an uri.

    You can open an inputstream for this uri using getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri).

    Then read from the stream.

    And you do not need any permission to do so.

    And this works from Android 4 KitKat to today.