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).>
Below solution work for 2.3(Gingerbread)-4.4(Kitkat), 5.0(Lollipop) and 6.0(Marshmallow) also:-
Step 1 Code for opening the gallery to select pics:
public static final int PICK_IMAGE = 1;
private void takePictureFromGalleryOrAnyOtherFolder()
{
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), PICK_IMAGE);
}
Step 2 Code for getting data in onActivityResult
:
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
if (requestCode == PICK_IMAGE) {
Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
String imagePath = getRealPathFromURI(selectedImageUri);
//Now you have imagePath do whatever you want to do now
}//end of inner if
}//end of outer if
}
public String getRealPathFromURI(Uri contentUri) {
//Uri contentUri = Uri.parse(contentURI);
String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
Cursor cursor = null;
try {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > 19) {
// Will return "image:x*"
String wholeID = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(contentUri);
// Split at colon, use second item in the array
String id = wholeID.split(":")[1];
// where id is equal to
String sel = MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + "=?";
cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(
MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
projection, sel, new String[] { id }, null);
} else {
cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri,
projection, null, null, null);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String path = null;
try {
int column_index = cursor
.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
path = cursor.getString(column_index).toString();
cursor.close();
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return path;
}