How to get internal shared storage and sd card file paths of document files? - filepath

Question

I am trying to get file paths of videos from internal shared storage and sd card.
I have randomly saved videos in random folders in internal shared storage and external storage.
public ArrayList<String> getVideosPath(Activity activity,Context context)
{
listOfAllImages = new ArrayList<String>();
Cursor cursor;
final String[] columns = {MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA, MediaStore.Video.Media._ID};
final String orderBy = MediaStore.Video.Media._ID;
//Stores all the images from the gallery in Cursor
cursor = getContentResolver().query(
MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, columns, null,
null, orderBy);
//Total number of images
int count = cursor.getCount();
//Create an array to store path to all the images
String[] arrPath = new String[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
cursor.moveToPosition(i);
int dataColumnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA);
//Store the path of the image
arrPath[i] = cursor.getString(dataColumnIndex);
Bitmap thumb = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(arrPath[i],
MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND);
// BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
// options.inSampleSize = 4;
// Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(arrPath[i], options);
bitmap.add(thumb);
// drawimages_onvideo.add(thumb);
Log.i("PATH", arrPath[i]);
listOfAllImages.add(arrPath[i]);
}
Although it gets the files from sd card and phone storage, the paths are different.
for e.g there are 2 video files one in android storage and one in sd-card and there path are
android storage : /storage/emulated/0/Movies/videoplay.mp4
and
sd-card : /storage/BBF7-A8D2/videos/videoplay.mp4
and i am getting these 2 files but the paths which are displayed to me are these:
/storage/emulated/0/Movies/videoplay.mp4
/storage/emulated/0/Movies/videoplay.mp4
What is wrong ?

Answer 1

this gives me the document files that i required, got help from one of stack over flow links.
public void getDocumentspath(){
listOfAllDocuments = new ArrayList<String>();
Cursor cursor;
String root_sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
String pdf = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("pdf");
String doc = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("doc");
String docx = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("docx");
String xls = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("xls");
String xlsx = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("xlsx");
String ppt = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("ppt");
String pptx = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("pptx");
String txt = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("txt");
String rtx = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("rtx");
String rtf = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("rtf");
String html = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("html");
String css = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("css");
// String js = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("js");
//Table
Uri table = MediaStore.Files.getContentUri("external");
//Column
String[] column = {MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.DATA};
//Where
String where = MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?"
+" OR " +MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.MIME_TYPE + "=?";
//args
String[] args = new String[]{pdf,doc,docx,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,txt,rtx,rtf,html,css};
Cursor fileCursor = getContentResolver().query(table, column, where, args, null);
int count = fileCursor.getCount();
//Create an array to store path to all the documents
String[] arrPath = new String[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
fileCursor.moveToPosition(i);
int dataColumnIndex = fileCursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Files.FileColumns.DATA);
//Store the path of the document
arrPath[i] = fileCursor.getString(dataColumnIndex);
Bitmap b = ((BitmapDrawable) ResourcesCompat.getDrawable(this.getResources(), R.drawable.documentfile, null)).getBitmap();
bitmap.add(b);
Log.i("PATH", arrPath[i]);
listOfAllDocuments.add(arrPath[i]);
}
}