Turning a string into a Uri in Android

Question

I have a string, 'songchoice'. I want it to become a 'Uri' so I can use with MediaPlayer.create(context, Uri)

How can I convert songchoice to the Uri?

score 538 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 28 '13 at 18:40

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Uri myUri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com");

edited Jun 28 '13 at 18:40

Peter Ajtai

answered Apr 25 '10 at 17:15

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Of course if there are any spaces in the string you pass in your app will barf all over the place if you launch an Intent with this Uri. – Christopher Perry Aug 09 '13 at 22:08
It shows cannot find symbole parse – CrackerKSR Jul 16 '22 at 20:17

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 15:23

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Uri.parse(STRING);

See doc:

String: an RFC 2396-compliant, encoded URI

Url must be canonicalized before using, like this:

Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

answered Jun 08 '18 at 15:23

Anton Savenok

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 05 '21 at 07:31

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The String I had to convert to a URI was a local file path, but without the file:// prefix. So even

 Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

resulted in FileNotFoundException: No content provider (see also this question). I got a valid URI by first creating a File object i.e.:

Uri myUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(STRING));

answered May 05 '21 at 07:31

Aldinjo

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