Getting an image from Gallery on from the Picasa//Google + synced folders doesn’t work

I wasted now lots of hours and now i found a solution which works in all cases without any magic downloading in special threads or something. The following method returns a stream from the content which the user selected and this works with everything in the wild.

FileInputStream getSourceStream(Uri u) throws FileNotFoundException {
    FileInputStream out = null;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        ParcelFileDescriptor parcelFileDescriptor =
                mContext.getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(u, "r");
        FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = parcelFileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
        out = new FileInputStream(fileDescriptor);
    } else {
        out = (FileInputStream) mContext.getContentResolver().openInputStream(u);
    }
    return out;
}