Capture image without permission with Android 6.0

Question

I need to let the user take a picture (from the gallery or from a camera app) with Android 6.0.

Because I don\'t need to control the camera, I wanted to use an intent as

Answer 1

Since the camera app cannot access to the private dirs of your app, It's your applications duty to write the photo file to that directory. I'm not really sure about this but this works for me:

private File createImageFile() throws IOException {
    // Create an image file name
    String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss", Locale.getDefault())
            .format(new Date());
    String imageFileName = "JPEG_" + timeStamp + "_";
    File storageDir = getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);
    return File.createTempFile(
            imageFileName,  /* prefix */
            ".jpg",         /* suffix */
            storageDir      /* directory */
    );
}

Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
if (takePictureIntent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
    // Create the File where the photo should go
    File photoFile = null;
    try {
        photoFile = createImageFile();
        takePictureIntent.putExtra("PhotoPath", mCameraPhotoPath);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        // Error occurred while creating the File
        Log.e(TAG, "Unable to create Image File", ex);
    }

    // Continue only if the File was successfully created
    if (photoFile != null) {
        takePictureIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT,
                Uri.fromFile(photoFile));
    } else {
        takePictureIntent = null;
    }
}

But you still need WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission before KITKAT: