Select pdf file from phone on button click and display its file name on textview

Question

I want to select pdf file from phone on button click and display its file name on a text view. till now I have done opening file manager for selecting pdf on button click

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Answer 1

Add in your getPDFPath method:

public String getPDFPath(Uri uri){

     final String id = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
     final Uri contentUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(
                    Uri.parse("content://downloads/public_downloads"), Long.valueOf(id));

     String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
     Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(contentUri, projection, null, null, null);
     int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
     cursor.moveToFirst();
     return cursor.getString(column_index);
}

In your case, this code is specifically for documents from DonwloadProvider, for further implementation check Paul Burke answer. I personally use his aFileChooser library to avoid this kind of problems.

Hope this helps!