Creating a ContentProvider in Android Studio 2.3.3

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I'm using Android Studio 2.3.3 and was trying to add a Content Provider component to the project. I keep getting the error "URI Authorities must be a valid URI authority" even after trying many variants of the URI Authorities entry. Same results for a brand new project shown below. Is this working in Studio or is something wrong with the entry?

Same error without the "content://" and the same error without trailing /info and same error without the trailing "mycontentprovider/info". Even tried "com.example.1" and it still gives me the error. — Hankster, Sep 20 '17 at 17:14
Tried it again an it worked this time. Will accept the first answer as a correct solution. — Hankster, Sep 20 '17 at 21:24

azizbekian · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-22T07:00:51.730

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It should be without content:// prefix, as simple as com.package.1;com.package.2:

This will create following <provider> in AndroidManifest:

    <provider
        android:name="com.mydomain.MyContentProvider"
        android:authorities="com.example.1;com.example.2"
        android:enabled="true"
        android:exported="true"></provider>

edited Sep 22 '17 at 07:00

answered Sep 20 '17 at 11:02

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '17 at 11:19

Uri Authority is the string between content:// and the next slash.

A content provider with com.example authority will handle any Uri starting with content://com.example.

A content provider cannot specify an Uri Authority that's already present in the system. Such app cannot be installed.

Read more here: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-creating.html#ContentURI

Creating a ContentProvider in Android Studio 2.3.3

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