Getting path from Uri from Google Photos app

Question

I have an app which allows to select photos with an external app. Then I take the path of the photo from the uri and use it for internal actions.

When user selects a

Answer 1

Finally and according to @CommonsWare answer and the previous post about this issue I solved getting the InputStream from the uri, coping into a new temporal file and passing the path to the function I need to use.

Here is the simplificated code:

public String getImagePathFromInputStreamUri(Uri uri) {
    InputStream inputStream = null;
    String filePath = null;

    if (uri.getAuthority() != null) {
        try {
            inputStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri); // context needed
            File photoFile = createTemporalFileFrom(inputStream);

            filePath = photoFile.getPath();

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            // log
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // log
        }finally {
            try {
                inputStream.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    return filePath;
}

private File createTemporalFileFrom(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
    File targetFile = null;

    if (inputStream != null) {
        int read;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[8 * 1024];

        targetFile = createTemporalFile();
        OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);

        while ((read = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            outputStream.write(buffer, 0, read);
        }
        outputStream.flush();

        try {
            outputStream.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    return targetFile;
}

private File createTemporalFile() {
    return new File(getExternalCacheDir(), "tempFile.jpg"); // context needed
}