If you as an Android developer working on an App and which is calling implicit Intents using a Uri, you will encounter FileUriExposedException on API 24+.

This exception starts occurring if your app will run in Android Nougat due to the fact that using file:// Uri’s are discouraged because it makes some assumptions about the destination app. For one thing, we assume that the destination app has READ_EXTERNAL_PERMISSION which may not be the case. If the destination app does not have the permission, this may result in unexpected behaviour which ends up with a crash.

Lets see how we can make it work –

In Android Nougat we have to use FileProvider to get rid of FileUriExposedException. Which can be done in 3 simple steps

Step 1

First of all, add the provider tag inside the application tag within AndroidManifest.xml

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Step 2

Once the provider get added in AndroidManifest.xml, next we need to create an xml file res/xml/provider_paths.xml

 Step 3

Now comes the final step that is the code change

//Old approach
 private void callIntent(File file) {
        if (file.exists()) {
            Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);            
            intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), getString(R.string.mimetype));
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
            startActivity(intent);
        }
    }


//New Approach
 private void callIntent(File file) {
        if (file.exists()) {
            Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            Uri apkURI = FileProvider.getUriForFile(
                    this, app.getPackageName() + ".provider", file);
            intent.setDataAndType(apkURI, getString(R.string.mimetype));
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
            startActivity(intent);
        }
    }

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Happy coding!!!

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