Android Gallery on Android 4.4 (KitKat) returns different URI for Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT

Question

Before KitKat (or before the new Gallery) the Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT returned a URI like this

content://media/external/images/media/39

Answer 1

Please try to avoid using takePersistableUriPermission method because it raised runtime exception for me. /** * Select from gallery. */

public void selectFromGallery() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < AppConstants.KITKAT_API_VERSION) {

        Intent intent = new Intent(); 
        intent.setType("image/*");
        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
        ((Activity)mCalledContext).startActivityForResult(intent,AppConstants.GALLERY_INTENT_CALLED);

    } else {

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
        intent.setType("image/*");
        ((Activity)mCalledContext).startActivityForResult(intent, AppConstants.GALLERY_AFTER_KITKAT_INTENT_CALLED);
    }
}

OnActivity for result to handle the image data:

@Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

    //gallery intent result handling before kit-kat version
    if(requestCode==AppConstants.GALLERY_INTENT_CALLED 
            && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {

        Uri selectedImage = data.getData();
        String[] filePathColumn = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,filePathColumn, null, null, null);
        cursor.moveToFirst();
        int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
        String filePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
        cursor.close();
        photoFile = new File(filePath);
        mImgCropping.startCropImage(photoFile,AppConstants.REQUEST_IMAGE_CROP);

    }
    //gallery intent result handling after kit-kat version
    else if (requestCode == AppConstants.GALLERY_AFTER_KITKAT_INTENT_CALLED 
            && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {

        Uri selectedImage = data.getData();
        InputStream input = null;
        OutputStream output = null;

        try {
            //converting the input stream into file to crop the 
            //selected image from sd-card.
            input = getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().openInputStream(selectedImage);
            try {
                photoFile = mImgCropping.createImageFile();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }catch(Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            output = new FileOutputStream(photoFile);

            int read = 0;
            byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];

            while ((read = input.read(bytes)) != -1) {
                try {
                    output.write(bytes, 0, read);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


    }