How do I get the real file location using Androids photo picker

Question

I'm using Android new photo picker and I'm trying to get the photo's real file location, but the photo picker gives me the following URI content://media/picker/0/com.android.providers.media.photopicker/media/1000000020

I've also tried the below to get the real file location with the following, but that also seems to give me an inaccurate location when I check the image in files.

@Composable
private fun getRealPathFromURI(contentUri: Uri): String {
    val projection = arrayOf(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA)
    val context = LocalContext.current
    val cursor = context.contentResolver.query(contentUri, projection, null, null, null)
    val columnIndex = cursor?.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA)
    cursor?.moveToFirst()
    val filePath = cursor?.getString(columnIndex!!)
    cursor?.close()
    println("filepath $filePath")
    return filePath!!
}

/sdcard/.transforms/synthetic/picker/0/com.android.providers.media.photopicker/media/1000000003.jpg

Is this not possible?

"I'm trying to get the photo's real file location" -- there is no requirement for the photo to exist on the filesystem, let alone at a path that you have read access to. Please use the `Uri` as intended, such as via `ContentResolver` and `openInputStream()` to read in the contents. — CommonsWare, Feb 05 '23 at 00:38
For newer developers you are not very helpful on how to accomplish this. — Robert, Feb 05 '23 at 00:53
That is because "this" ("get the photo's real file location") is not possible in any sort of reliable form. If you want to display the image, use an image-loading library like Glide or Picasso, which can work with a `Uri` like this. If you want to upload the image, I linked you to [a question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56308559/create-a-file-from-a-photo-uri-on-android) that deals with that, and the answer links to [a blog post](https://commonsware.com/blog/2020/07/05/multipart-upload-okttp-uri.html) with a sample project. — CommonsWare, Feb 05 '23 at 01:02

How do I get the real file location using Androids photo picker

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