android youtube upload using intent

Question

``` Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); intent.setType("video/3gpp"); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, videoURI); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent,"Upload video via:")); ``` I used above code to upload 3gp video to youtube by firing intent but it throws following exception. I dont understand what is the relationship between the date exception and media uploading ``` 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-12 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): java.lang.NullPointerException 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1325) 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.formatImpl(SimpleDateFormat.java:536) 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:818) 05-04 13:04:59.315: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(10671): at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:376)…

Accepted Answer

I ran into the same bug when I used `Uri.fromFile()` for obtaining URI of my video. The solution was using a `ContentProvider` for creating URI:

```
ContentValues content = new ContentValues(4);
content.put(Video.VideoColumns.TITLE, "Test");
content.put(Video.VideoColumns.DATE_ADDED,
System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);
content.put(Video.Media.MIME_TYPE, "video/mp4");
content.put(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA, "/sdcard/myvideo.mp4");
ContentResolver resolver = getContext().getContentResolver();
Uri uri = resolver.insert(MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, content);
```

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