Android MediaPlayer full path to file

Question

I need to get the full path to a file somewhere on the phone (any location) and play it with MediaPlayer.

ive heard of using a file chooser for Android (by launching an

Answer 1

It seems you are calling prepare() twice, first in the constructor of AudioVideoEntry, and second in the method prepareMedia(), that's why it's giving an IllegalStateException.

If you read carefully the documentation you can understand the State Diagram and why gives such exceptions.