This will get the file path from the MediaProvider, DownloadsProvider, and ExternalStorageProvider, while falling back to the unofficial ContentProvider method you mention. /** * Get a file path from a Uri. This will get the the path for Storage Access * Framework Documents, as well as the _data field for the MediaStore and * other … Read more
/ is the path separator on Unix and Unix-like systems. Modern Windows can generally use both \ and / interchangeably for filepaths, but Microsoft has advocated for the use of \ as the path separator for decades. This is done for historical reasons that date as far back as the 1970s, predating Windows by over … Read more
There is no “absolute path for a file existing in the asset folder”. The content of your project’s assets/ folder are packaged in the APK file. Use an AssetManager object to get an InputStream on an asset. For WebView, you can use the file Uri scheme in much the same way you would use a … Read more
For the sake of completeness … Just path is a file or directory named path in the current directory. ./path is a file or directory named path in the current directory, with the directory spelled out. The dot directory . represents the current directory, and path is the name of the file or directory within … Read more
If you absolutely need a local copy of the file, you are going to need to open the InputStream copy the contents to a local file that you know the path to and then go from there. Sidenote: Guava’s ByteStreams#copy is an easy way to accomplish this. Of course this file is no longer backed … Read more
For security reasons browsers do not allow this, i.e. JavaScript in browser has no access to the File System, however using HTML5 File API, only Firefox provides a mozFullPath property, but if you try to get the value it returns an empty string: $(‘input[type=file]’).change(function () { console.log(this.files[0].mozFullPath); }); https://jsfiddle.net/SCK5A/ So don’t waste your time. edit: … Read more