Android: Incorrect File name for selected file(From file chooser)

Question

I have a screen where on a button click I open a file chooser and then I select a file named "Test.jpg" for further operation. I use following code to get name of that file.

Uri uri = data.getData();
File file = new File(uri.getPath());
String fileName = file.getName();

Here are the results from debugger

file.getName() => 167522

file.toString() => /external/images/media/167522

I want to get Test.jpg as my filename. Please let me know what is wrong with my code.

Answer 1

Need path from your uri. here is a method to get path from uri.

public  String getPath(Context context, Uri uri) throws URISyntaxException {
    if ("content".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme())) {
        String[] projection = { "_data" };
        Cursor cursor = null;
        try {
            cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
            int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow("_data");
            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                return cursor.getString(column_index);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // Eat it
        }
    }
    else if ("file".equalsIgnoreCase(uri.getScheme())) {
        return uri.getPath();
    }

    return null;
}

Get file name

try{
  //call the getPath uri with context and uri
  //To get path from uri
  String path = getPath(this, uri);
  File file = new File(path);
  String filename = file.getName();
  Log.e(TAG, "File Name: " + filename);
}catch(Exception e){
   e("Err", e.toString()+"");
}

output

uri: content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A12876
FileName : profile.png