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

Additional to previous answers, if you are having problems with getting the right path(like AndroZip) you can use this:

  public String getPath(Uri uri ,ContentResolver contentResolver) {
        String[] projection = {  MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA};
        Cursor cursor;
        try{
            cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
        } catch (SecurityException e){
            String path = uri.getPath();
            String result = tryToGetStoragePath(path);
            return  result;
        }
        if(cursor != null) {
            //HERE YOU WILL GET A NULLPOINTER IF CURSOR IS NULL
            //THIS CAN BE, IF YOU USED OI FILE MANAGER FOR PICKING THE MEDIA
            cursor.moveToFirst();
            int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA);
            String filePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
            cursor.close();
            return filePath;
        }
        else
            return uri.getPath();               // FOR OI/ASTRO/Dropbox etc
    }

    private String tryToGetStoragePath(String path) {
        int actualPathStart = path.indexOf("//storage");
        String result = path;

        if(actualPathStart!= -1 && actualPathStart< path.length())
            result = path.substring(actualPathStart+1 , path.length());

        return result;
    }