taskSnapshot.getDownloadUrl() method not working

Question

private void uploadImageToFirebaseStorage() {
    StorageReference profileImageRef =
        FirebaseStorage.getInstance().getReference("profilepics/" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg");

    if (uriProfileImage != null) {
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        profileImageRef.putFile(uriProfileImage)
            .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot>() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(@NonNull UploadTask.TaskSnapshot taskSnapshot) {
                    progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                    profileImageUrl = taskSnapshot.**getDownloadUrl**().toString();
                }
            })
            .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                @Override
                public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                    progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                    Toast.makeText(ProfileActivity.this, e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            });
    }
}

taskSnapshot.getDownloadUrl() method not working comes up with red line under it

Answer 1

Edit: see this comment on why the approach in this answer doesn't work:

firebaser here This answer is wrong. While it at first may appear to work (since it compiles) the result of getDownloadUrl().toString() is not a download URL, but a string representation of a Task object. For a better answer, see stackoverflow.com/a/55503926 or the sample in the Firebase documentation.

Original answer below...

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In Firebase Storage API version 16.0.1, the getDownloadUrl() method using taskSnapshot object has changed. now you can use,

taskSnapshot.getMetadata().getReference().getDownloadUrl().toString()

to get download url from the firebase storage.