On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Streets Of Boston
<flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote:

> To get the fully qualified path-name to the image-file (jpg/png),
> query the Uri of the image and obtain the value of the DATA ("_data")
> column. This value is a String, the fully-qualified path to the image
> file. Then you can create a FileInputStream from this file.
>

No, don't do this.  Use ContentResolver.openFile() and create a
FileInputStream or whatever from the FileDescriptor:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentProvider.html#openFile(android.net.Uri,
java.lang.String)

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Dianne Hackborn
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