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Does Jetpack Compose have easy integration with gallery and storage access for picking files?

It will in the upcoming Activity Compose 1.3.0-alpha03: <https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172690553|https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172690553>

So, it's not currently possible to access files from Compose. Is it?

you can probably use `AmbientContext` in some way to do what you want

anything possible from any other part of the android sdk is possible from compose, and we wouldn't do anything in a future stock implementation of a file picker that you can't do yourself from the public api available today. :slightly_smiling_face:

You can certainly copy/paste the CL in that issue into your app

Does that mean we will be able to pick files/image without requiring that FileUtils  class we generally use with methods to obtain filepath for different android versions containing lots of logic?

That's absolutely never something you need to do on any API level. You should always be using `ContentResolver` APIs to open an input stream from the returning URI

But i have searched a lot and only found gists that handle it differently for different android versions. Can you provide a link to a proper guide or tutorial please?

`contentResolver.openInputStream(uri)` is all you need to do to open any URI on any API. That's literally it

Thank you for the reply. Appreciate answering by noob question

<@UJBPFB3SN> Ok so it`s throwing error in case when my Uri is like this <content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A28> . How to handle such Uri ?

Are you doing something other than calling `contentResolver.openInputStream(thatExactUri)` upon receiving that URI?

<@UJBPFB3SN> Nope nothing after getting Uri thats the first thing i am doing

`<http://java.io|java.io>.FileNotFoundException: No such file or directory`
        `at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionWithFileNotFoundExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:146)`
        `at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.openTypedAssetFile(ContentProviderNative.java:691)`
        `at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1080)`
        `at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:921)`
        `at android.content.ContentResolver.openInputStream`

Above error occurs for uri like <content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A28>