Apps creating our own local content provider

[murali.lancer]

Hi today, i am posting how to create a local content provider ,which is specific to our application .


you should a class ContentProvider first .
and u should override only one method ,i.e. public ParcelFileDescriptor openFile(Uri uri, String mode) throws FileNotFoundException ,and u need not touch any other method.



import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.net.URI;

import android.content.ContentProvider;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.ParcelFileDescriptor;

public class LocalFileContentProvider extends ContentProvider
{

@Override
public ParcelFileDescriptor openFile(Uri uri, String mode) throws FileNotFoundException
{
//here u should mention the path from where u want to get the data
URI uri1 = URI.create("file:///data/data/package name /files"+uri.getPath());
if u are requesting for file system .here the path what u are sending ,that here will replace(uri.getPath())
File file = new File(uri1.getPath());
ParcelFileDescriptor parcel = ParcelFileDescriptor.open(file, ParcelFileDescriptor.MODE_READ_ONLY);
return parcel;
}

@Override
public boolean onCreate()
{
return true;
}

@Override
public int delete(Uri uri, String s, String[] as)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported by this provider");
}
@Override
public String getType(Uri uri)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported by this provider");
}
@Override
public Uri insert(Uri uri, ContentValues contentvalues)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported by this provider");
}

@Override
public Cursor query(Uri uri, String[] as, String s, String[] as1, String s1)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported by this provider");
}

@Override
public int update(Uri uri, ContentValues contentvalues, String s, String[] as)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported by this provider");
}


}



and u should mention provider in the manifest file like

<application android:icon="@drawable/sample_7"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<provider android:name=".LocalFileContentProvider"
android:authorities="package name" />
<activity android:name="klgjdslkj"
android:label="n,bnsgdjm">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
it should be in this order only .



And while calling the content provider u should call like this
imageView.setImageURI("content://package name /the path to where u need to cal ");


Enjoy this if it is useful

Murali dhuli
android developer

 

[SotirisBK]

Hi murali,

Very interesting post and almost does the work I want. For some reason when I try to get a video fileusing content://pkg/path-to-file.mp4 it does not seem to pass through the overriden "openFile" function. And of course the videoplayer says that cannot play video. The wierd part is that in emulator works perfectly. But in real device does not!
Are there any ideas to resolve this issue? I lost another day today trying to figure this out!