In my app I have a textedit that holds the path to the file my app is to process. I have a browse button so the user can choose the file. After choosing the textedit should containbthe path/file information. In the button's onClick method I have the following code:
Intent intent = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT ); intent.setType ( "*/*" ); startActivity ( Intent.createChooser ( intent, "Select a file" ) ); How do I get the Uri after the user is done?
startActivityForResult() per dev guide, recommended at the top of the Android docs on Intents
Starting an activity
An Activity represents a single screen in an app. You can start a new instance of an > Activity by passing an Intent to startActivity(). The Intent describes the activity to start and carries any necessary data.
If you want to receive a result from the activity when it finishes, call startActivityForResult(). Your activity receives the result as a separate Intent object in your activity's onActivityResult() callback. For more information, see the Activities guide.
onActivityResult() callback... if you can stand to!My final code, works for my needs
public void btnPress_onClick ( View v ) { Intent intent = new Intent ( Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT ); switch ( v.getId ( ) ) { case R.id.btnFilesystem: setContentView ( R.layout.filesystem ); txtFileSource = findViewById ( R.id.txtboxSourcePath ); txtFileDest = findViewById ( R.id.txtboxDestPath ); break; case R.id.btnTextEdit: setContentView ( R.layout.textedit ); textBox = findViewById ( R.id.textEditField ); break; case R.id.btnHelp: setContentView ( R.layout.help ); break; case R.id.btnSecurity: setContentView ( R.layout.security ); spnrPivotTable = findViewById ( R.id.spnrSelectPivotTable ); showKey = findViewById ( R.id.chkShowKey ); passKey = findViewById ( R.id.txtPassKey ); break; case R.id.btnHome: setContentView ( R.layout.main ); break; case R.id.btnBrowseSource: intent.setType ( "*/*" ); startActivityForResult ( Intent.createChooser ( intent, "Select a file" ), BROWSE_SOURCE ); break; case R.id.btnBrowseDest: intent.setType ( "*/*" ); startActivityForResult ( Intent.createChooser ( intent, "Select a file" ), BROWSE_DEST ); break; default: FancyToast.makeText ( MainActivity.this, "Function not yet coded.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT, FancyToast.INFO, true ).show ( ); } } @Override protected void onActivityResult ( int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data ) { switch ( requestCode ) { case BROWSE_SOURCE: if ( resultCode == RESULT_OK ) { txtFileSource.setText ( data.getData ( ).getPath ( ) ); } else { FancyToast.makeText ( MainActivity.this, "An Error occured", FancyToast.ERROR, FancyToast.LENGTH_LONG, true ).show ( ); } break; case BROWSE_DEST: if ( resultCode == RESULT_OK ) { txtFileDest.setText ( data.getData ( ).getPath ( ) ); } else { FancyToast.makeText ( MainActivity.this, "An Error occured", FancyToast.ERROR, FancyToast.LENGTH_LONG, true ).show ( ); } break; } }