There are times when you have to share one or more files with other apps? Let’s take an example. You might have to send images to image editors. On the other hand, you might also Copy & Paste files between external storage? The best way, in this case, is to send the file’s content URI to the receiving app. You can allow the receiving app with temporary access permissions to the file’s content URI. Why is Content URI safe? The reason for this is that the content URI only applies to the app that receives the URI. Once that has been done, it expires automatically. There are ways of generating a file’s content URI. One of them is the getUriForFile() method which is offered by Android FileProvider component. In this article, we will talk about ways of securing sharing files between apps by using content URIs and temporary permissions. The content URIs will be generated by using the Android FileProvider component . 1) Set up file sharing The first thing that you need t
In life of any Android developer, there are times when there is a requirement in the application to use one scrollable control inside another scrollable control. In such cases, the scrolling functionality of one or all scrollable controls gets enabled and the Android application cannot identify that scroll event of which control is to be handled first. Here, UI may get stuck in some scenarios. The ideal behavior expected is when the user touches the parent scroll view, only the parent view’s scroll event is called and when the user scrolls the child scroll view, the child view’s scroll event is called. In our standard Android application development and implementation process it does not happen when we add scrollable control in another scrollable control. Below is the solution to handle the scroll event of both the controls without any glitch. Example We have a layout that has a ScrollView as parent layout and it contains some TextViews, ImageViews and ListView as child control