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

This worked fine for me:

else if(requestCode == GALLERY_ACTIVITY_NEW && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK)
{
    Uri uri = data.getData();
    Log.i(TAG, "old uri =  " + uri);
    dumpImageMetaData(uri);

    try {
        ParcelFileDescriptor parcelFileDescriptor =
                getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uri, "r");
        FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = parcelFileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
        Log.i(TAG, "File descriptor " + fileDescriptor.toString());

        final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor, null, options);

        options.inSampleSize =
           BitmapHelper.calculateInSampleSize(options,
                                              User.PICTURE_MAX_WIDTH_IN_PIXELS,
                                              User.PICTURE_MAX_HEIGHT_IN_PIXELS);
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;

        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor, null, options);
        imageViewPic.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

        ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, stream);
        // get byte array here
        byte[] picData = stream.toByteArray();
        ParseFile picFile = new ParseFile(picData);
        user.setProfilePicture(picFile);
    }
    catch(FileNotFoundException exc)
    {
        Log.i(TAG, "File not found: " + exc.toString());
    }
}