Pick Image From Android Device's Gallery App - android

In my android application, I implemented a feature to pick an image from Gallery. For that earlier I was doing this-
Intent pickImageIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
pickImageIntent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(pickImageIntent, GALLERY_REQUEST_CODE);
By doing this, a dialog with all available image source application like Dropbox including Native Gallery app were displayed and it asks to choose one. Then I changed to
Intent pickImageIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
pickImageIntent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(pickImageIntent, GALLERY_REQUEST_CODE);
By doing this most of applications were not diplayed but still some like Picasa are diplayed. I want to pick an image from Device's native gallery app only or we can say from either device's internal or external memory not from any third party application.
If any one has solution for this please help me with that.


To pick image from Gallery only
Intent pickImageIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
pickImageIntent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(pickImageIntent, GALLERY_REQUEST_CODE);

Related

How to use an Image Uri outside Activity?

I'm creating a Sign-Up page from my app that has the option to obtain an image from the gallery using this code:
Intent pickImageFileIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
pickImageFileIntent.setType("image/*");
String pickTitle = getString(R.string.select_img_gallery);
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(pickImageFileIntent, pickTitle);
startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, PICK_IMAGE);
After the user selects the image from the gallery I show that image in an ImageView using Glide, and it works fine. But when I try to use that image's Uri in another activity I get permission denied and the app crashes, so I think the Uri only has permissions for the Activity where ti was obtained. I tried to use ACTION_GET_DOCUMENT instead of ACTION_PICK and it works but the problems is in the Intent chooser it only shows the file explorer instead of the default media gallery and Google Photos, like when I use ACTION_PICK. Is there a way to use the Uri outside the activity while still using ACTION_PICK?

Preselected 'all' by default in android.Intent gallery with multiple selection

please help
how can i do preselection all for user in a native android gallery ?
here is a code
Intent galleryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
galleryIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
galleryIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, multiple);
galleryIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
final Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(galleryIntent, "Pick an image");
activity.startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, IMAGE_PICKER_REQUEST);
its working fine, but initial stage 0 files are selected
thanks

There is no means of pre-selecting anything when using ACTION_GET_CONTENT, let alone pre-selecting everything.
Also note that ACTION_GET_CONTENT is not tied to a gallery app, and there is no single "native Android gallery" app across the ~10,000 Android device models.

How to pick images from Gallery instead of Photos in android?

I am using the following code to pick images.
Intent photoPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
photoPickerIntent.setType("image/*");
photoPickerIntent.setData(android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(photoPickerIntent, getActivity().getResources().getString(R.string.select_picture)), 1);
Its working fine but it only let me to choose images from default Photos application. I want to pick images from "Gallery" application even in today's latest devices. I don't know how WhatsApp is doing this even for Lollipop.

I am using This code in my app and it works fine for me..
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
intent.setType("image/* video/*");
startActivityForResult(intent, 3);

How to pick multiple files from Android's gallery?

i need to open gallery and pick 1-n images OR 1-n videos (2 different intent) from Android's gallery, like the ACTION_PICK intent. How can I achieve that? There are some cool library on GitHub for multiple pick or custom gallery?

If you use API 18 or higher, you can add to your intent.putExtra like so:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*,video/*"); //For choosing both images and/or videos
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, true); //This should allow multiple selection
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,"Select Picture"), 1);
There is also a GitHub project to build your own GridView with multi selection
Read here

To pick multiple files from gallery you need to simply modify your intent. For example:
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setType("image/*");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, true);
i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(
Intent.createChooser(intent,"Select"), 1);
Please note the i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE, true);

Start Intent for Result - Camera intent for images only?

I have an app that a user will be able to take pictures with. Having the camera is a small, but necessary feature but I want it to only be able to take pictures (no video). Is there a way I can make it startIntentForResult with a pictures-only camera intent? Or perhaps make it only accept images as the result? Making my own custom camera for the app seems a bit overkill, but I will do it if I have to.
Thanks

This code has been working for me for ever
Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(File.createTempFile("image", ".jpg"));
cameraIntent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uri);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(cameraIntent, "Take Picture", 0);

Categories

Resources