Fileprovider "failed To Find Configured Root" Exception

One more of these FileProvider lost souls... I have been working on this problem more than a day now, and it seems I am missing something big. Any help would be appreciated! I am t

Solution 1:

It seems I found workaround or fix. Changing the root directory type I was using from external-files-path to cache-path in the xml and from context.getExternalFilesDir("export"); to File dir = new File(context.getCacheDir(), "export"); for getting the folder to create the file.

And I successfully attached the file. Note that in the FileProvider.java for the FileProvider class I found the following code for constructing the Uris:

if (TAG_ROOT_PATH.equals(tag)) {
            target = buildPath(DEVICE_ROOT, path);
        } elseif (TAG_FILES_PATH.equals(tag)) {
            target = buildPath(context.getFilesDir(), path);
        } elseif (TAG_CACHE_PATH.equals(tag)) {
            target = buildPath(context.getCacheDir(), path);
        } elseif (TAG_EXTERNAL.equals(tag)) {
            target = buildPath(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), path);
        }

Which looks like only the following 4 folders are supported: TAG_ROOT_PATH, TAG_FILES_PATH, TAG_CACHE_PATH, TAG_EXTERNAL. There is no TAG_EXTERNAL_FILES or something like this, so this seems like a mismatch between the documentation and the implementation, and actually the external-files-path matching the getExternalFilesDir method is not supported.

Solution 2:

FilephotoFile=newFile(fullFileName);

        if (photoFile != null) {

            UriphotoURI=FileProvider.getUriForFile(MainActivity.this(your activity name),
                        BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + ".provider", photoFile);
}

if you create Uri like this may be it work for you.

Solution 3:

There is some workaound:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><pathsxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><files-pathname="logs"path="../logs/" /><!-- use ".." to get files from app's root data dir --></paths>

to provide files from /data/data/xxx.xxx.xxx/ in my case it was /data/data/xxx.xxx.xxx/logs/