Does Jetpack Compose have easy integration with gallery and

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

Ian Lake · Answer

It will in the upcoming Activity Compose 1 3 0 alpha03 <https issuetracker google com issues 172690553|https issuetracker google com issues 172690553>

Mehdi Haghgoo · Answer

So it s not currently possible to access files from Compose Is it

zsperske · Answer

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

Adam Powell · Answer

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

Ian Lake · Answer

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

Samir Basnet · Answer

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

Ian Lake · Answer

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

Samir Basnet · Answer

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

Ian Lake · Answer

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

Samir Basnet · Answer

Thank you for the reply Appreciate answering by noob question

Samir Basnet · Answer

< Ian Lake> Ok so it`s throwing error in case when my Uri is like this How to handle such Uri

Ian Lake · Answer

Are you doing something other than calling `contentResolver openInputStream thatExactUri ` upon receiving that URI

Samir Basnet · Answer

< Ian Lake> Nope nothing after getting Uri thats the first thing i am doing

Samir Basnet · Answer

`<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`

Samir Basnet · Answer

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