MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA is deprecated, and I want to load images from gallery to my app

Question

I want to load all the pictures from the galley to my app by using MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATA , but it is deprecated. So, what is the other way to load them?

I use this

Answer 1

I managed to come up with the following solution, its kind of an addition to the previous answer

but there I still couldn't load images with the obtained Uri. Documentation suggested to use openFileDescriptor() which I did and then decoded images' bitmaps from it:

override fun loadImagesFromStorage(): List {

    val uri: Uri = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI
    val cursor: Cursor?
    val columnIndexId: Int
    val listOfAllImages = mutableListOf()
    val projection = arrayOf(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID)
    cursor = context.contentResolver
        .query( uri, projection, null, null, null)

    if ( cursor != null ){
        columnIndexId = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID)
        while (cursor.moveToNext()){

            val contentUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(uri, cursor.getLong(columnIndexId))

            //here I open FileDescriptor and then decode it into Bitmap
            var image: Bitmap
            context.contentResolver.openFileDescriptor(contentUri, "r").use { pfd ->
                if( pfd != null ){
                    image = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(pfd.fileDescriptor)
                    listOfAllImages.add(AdapterImage(image))
                }
            }

        }
        cursor.close()
    }

    return listOfAllImages
}

P.S. My method will return a list of AdapterImage objects that I use later in app but you can put anything you need there at this point