Share Photos & Files Using FileProvider

This tutorial will show you how to share data (texts, photos, files, etc.) with other apps that are capable of receiving it. We will be using FileProvider to share them.

[androidtutorials]

After couple of requests, I have made another similar tutorial, but with audios (mp3) incase anyone is interested.

[khchin]

Finally somebody is explaining this clearly. Thanks for that!

[artcodezen]

Thanks so much man, you saved my life. Your tutorial is very good, objective and simple.

[zeta]

Just want to say, thank you so much bro!

[engosm]

Thank you very much, for couple of days i am stuck in this matter.

[LucasMasciotra]

realy u save my ass got a new suscriber, u are the only one that explains how fileprovider works on a easy way u cant imagine how greatfull i am after ours of app crashing bless u !

[LucasMasciotra]

ty dude its the only updated tutorial about this

[i-nozex]

I'm strugling quite a bit in the oposite end, on how to handle/request the shared data (my app will be the receiver of the shared content, in my case is a CSV file, I'm able to get a "content://" path but not the actual shared file)...
It's been quite hard to find resources in this matter, anyone has a good tutorial/how does it work/code example or any other kind of information that could help me to understand and implement? thanks!

[CanalRenaultClio]

FileProvider is jut a ridiculous way to solve a problema that does not exist. Now just a simple file share that should take 5 lines of code requires to create 5 files

[chandanaphere]

The font is too small for me to watch this on mobile.thanks for doing this but can you adjust the font size

[huseyintunc]

How can we do it for audios (mp3) ? (Saving sd card codes)

[zaptor]

Subscribed.. I just wanna ask is this the same as shareit function? if it does. well this is awesome!

[ramvilashkumar]

How to implement it for those photo that are coming in the recyclerview from the net that are not stored in the drawable.Please make a video of it or code for it

[DjangoMx]

Hi there I'm using a file provider for take a picture from the camera an save it in the internal storage and everything works fine but when I make a little change to the code for save it the image in the private files of my app the image not is saved, I getting private files with getFilesDir(), one thing more that only happen in android KitKat because un higer version I can save the image in the last directory and everything works fine, do you have some idea about that wat happen?

[abhijeetsingh]

it's show "the file format is not supported" on sharing with whatsapp and show "unable to attach file" on gmail

[CeorNormal]

And if I want to open an excel file?
Somebody could please tell me what can I do? I am almost two days trying that

[juniorlanga]

Thanks for the video, very helpful. But how do I share a picture from an ImageView ?

[RealMeenakshiDangi]

And in this showing - file format not supported.
I am trying to share the clicked image.
Kindly help.

[ebpvgeb]

While sending an audio. It just stuck on "still pending" status.
What would I need to share an audio file that's already been save on External storage?

[khchin]

Sir, how to take image from the camera and crop it FOR ANDROID 7.1.2?
I am using FileProvider already but there is IllegalArgumentException error.
Guessed something to do with uri.
Thanks in advance!