Whats the difference between Java.Net.Uri and Android.Net.Uri

The difference is that Android.Net.Uri is Google's own implementation of RFC 2396.

Android.Net.Uri is immutable, hence it is thread-safe. Their implementation is also, according to the comments in the source, more forgiving. So while Java.Net.Uri would throw an Exception you attempt to use a garbage Uri, the Android implementation would just return you a Uri with that garbage.

As far as I can tell, Android.Net.Uri will only throw NullPointerException and seemingly no other exceptions. While the Java.Net.Uri implementation will throw other exceptions such as URISyntaxException and IllegalArgumentException

Otherwise they seem very similar.

The Uri you get file:/sdcard/MyFolder/MyFile.txt is valid, and when throwing it through java.net.URI I get following:

java> String uri = "file:/sdcard/MyFolder/MyFile.txt";java> import java.net.*java> URI urr = new URI(uri);java.net.URI urr = file:/sdcard/MyFolder/MyFile.txtjava> urr.getScheme();java.lang.String res2 = "file"java> urr.getPath();java.lang.String res3 = "/sdcard/MyFolder/MyFile.txt"

Here is one practical difference:

java.net.uri supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses whereas android.net.uri only support IPv4.