Get/pick an image from Android's built-in Gallery app programmatically

Question

I am trying to open an image / picture in the Gallery built-in app from inside my application.

I have a URI of the picture (the picture is located on the SD card).

Answer 1

There are two useful tutorials about image picker with downloadable source code here:

How to Create Android Image Picker

How to Select and Crop Image on Android

However, the app will be forced to close sometime, you can fix it by adding android:configChanges attribute into main activity in Manifest file like as:

It seems that the camera API lost control with orientation so this will help it. :)