Thanks! I never thought about going through the file-descriptor.
But why is using the DATA column discouraged? It works fine and it's a
public column (not part of a private API or such).
On Nov 17, 12:42 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> 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/ContentProvide...,
> java.lang.String)
>
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> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
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