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Virtual Files in the Storage Access Framework (Android Development Patterns S3 Ep 11)

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Virtual files are a new addition to the Storage Access Framework in Android 7.0 that allow apps to handle files that don’t have a direct bytecode representation - openInputStream() won’t work for these files. While they can be filtered out by adding CATEGORY_OPENABLE to your Intent, you can also take advantage of alternative mime types to transcode files into other formats or build an ACTION_VIEW Intent to open the selected virtual file in the app that provides the file.
Check out the documentation on virtual files at
and read more about the Storage Access Framework at
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