Turning a string into a Uri in Android

java android uri

Uri myUri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com");

java android uri

Uri.parse(STRING);

See doc:

String: an RFC 2396-compliant, encoded URI

Url must be canonicalized before using, like this:

Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

java android uri

The String I had to convert to a URI was a local file path, but without the file:// prefix. So even

 Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

resulted in FileNotFoundException: No content provider (see also this question).I got a valid URI by first creating a File object i.e.:

Uri myUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(STRING));

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