Question

I am having weird problem, I am having a user click button to choose an image. Then I am storing the encoded path in db and retreiving it later so I display the image in another activity but I am getting the following Exception

09-14 01:39:36.195: W/System.err(2241): java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: /external/images/media/1113
09-14 01:39:36.195: W/System.err(2241):     at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:610)
09-14 01:39:36.195: W/System.err(2241):     at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:542)
09-14 01:39:36.195: W/System.err(2241):     at android.content.ContentResolver.openInputStream(ContentResolver.java:377)

My button OnClick & store in db code:

                Uri selectedImage = imageReturnedIntent.getData();
                InputStream imageStream;
                try {
                    imageStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(selectedImage);
                    BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
                    options.inSampleSize = 8;
                    Bitmap yourSelectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageStream, null, options );
                    ivPictureChosen.setImageBitmap(yourSelectedImage);
                    storeEncodedImageInDb(selectedImage.getEncodedPath());
                } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Toast.makeText(this, "Couldn't pick image", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

My retreival & showing image code:

            String imagePath = db.getEncodedImage();
            if(imagePath.length()>0){
                Uri mainImgeUri = Uri.parse(imagePath);
                InputStream imageStream;
                try {
                    imageStream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(mainImgeUri);
                    BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
                    options.inSampleSize = 8;
                    Bitmap yourSelectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageStream, null, options );
                    mainImage.setImageBitmap(yourSelectedImage);
                } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

How come the file is not found although thats the encoded path I got in the first place?

Answer 1

You will not only need the path but also scheme etc.
An Uri looks like so: http://www.stackoverflow.com or file://foo/bar/image.jpg.

encodedPath is only the path part of this, e.g. stackoverflow.com or /foo/bar/image.jpg.

Try to store the result of yourUri.toString() in the database and retrieve Uri.parse(theStringFromDatabase)