The bestway to pick a video file and get real path to upload to server about storage-samples HOT 2 CLOSED

These blog post might also be helpful:

• Multipart Uploads with OkHttp... and a Uri
• content:// URIs and OkHttp

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If you're using Retrofit, you can extend RequestBody to work with a FileDescriptor or FileInputStream.

Generally, take the content:// Uri from SAF or Media Store and use [ContentResolver.openfiledescriptor(uri, "r")][1]

Then use this (or something similar -- I haven't been able to test it -- based on stepango's gist to get a RequestBody:

fun FileDescriptor.requestBody(contentType: MediaType? = null) = object : RequestBody() {
  
  override fun contentType() = contentType
        
  override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {
    source(FileInputStream(this)).use { source ->
      sink.writeAll(source)
    }
  }
}

You can follow the rest of the steps for uploading a file with Retrofit, just changing the File bits for the file descriptor from above.

If you have further questions, I'd suggest asking on Stack Overflow.

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