feat(Angular Material): Add Support for type="file" for MatInput or Create Mat File Chooser component

[ekow-mensah]

Feature Description

I would like to request for adding support for type="file" for MatInput. So currently Angular material does not have a file chooser meaning I have to use an external library which is not great. I tried using

and an error message was displayed showing "Input type "file" isn't supported by matInput."

Will it be possible to add support for type file or create a file chooser component?

Use Case

A typical use case is where I want to upload files. Currently there's no way to do this using angular material because Angular material does not have a file chooser component. So we could.

1. Add support for type="file"
2. You could create a component which will support file uploads

[hhsissi]

Like a lot of people, still waiting for this one for some years now...

[crisbeto]

Duplicate of https://github.com/angular/components/issues/24044.

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