Intent to pick file from the specified directory in internal storage

Asked Jan 08 '19 at 16:38

Active Jan 09 '19 at 09:34

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I need to create Intent which will show me a file picker to choose files inside the specified folder. I used this approach:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
Uri selectedUri = Uri.parse(getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/FILES");
intent.setDataAndType(selectedUri, "*/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, SCRIPT_REQUEST_CODE);

But this didn't open the desired folder.

Can somebody tell how to open the file picker in the specified folder?

UPD: Tried this as were suggested in comments but I can't pick the desired file type with such type in intent.

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
intent.setType("file/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, YOUR_RESULT_CODE);

edited Jan 09 '19 at 09:34

asked Jan 08 '19 at 16:38

Nazarii Moshenskiy

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there are lots of related questions and answers, have you tried them? – nandsito Jan 08 '19 at 17:48
Possible duplicate of [How to use intent for choosing file browser to select file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9923760/how-to-use-intent-for-choosing-file-browser-to-select-file) – user1506104 Jan 08 '19 at 19:08
@user1506104 Tried this as were suggested but I can't pick the desired file type with such type in intent. – Nazarii Moshenskiy Jan 09 '19 at 09:35
did you try with intent.setType("\*/\*")? – user1506104 Jan 09 '19 at 09:53
@user1506104 yes, it just shows me all types of files. no filtering – Nazarii Moshenskiy Jan 09 '19 at 10:15
what type of file/s that you want to filter? – user1506104 Jan 09 '19 at 10:20
@user1506104 `.scr` – Nazarii Moshenskiy Jan 09 '19 at 10:21
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27407157/android-file-chooser-with-specific-file-extensions – user1506104 Jan 09 '19 at 20:37

Intent to pick file from the specified directory in internal storage

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