Android : Why Intent.EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY shows Google Photos

Question

What I\'m trying to do in my application is to let the user choose a picture from his phone\'s gallery(Don\'t want to get gallery images only but also allowing a user to cho

Answer 1

EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY only tells the receiving app that it should return only data that is present.

Google+ Photos stores both local and remote pictures and because of that is registered for that intent with that extra. However apparently it ignores wherever calling intent has EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY set to true.

You could try removing G+ Photos from list manually (however this seems a bit hacky):

List<Intent> targets = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY, true);
List<ResolveInfo> candidates = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);

for (ResolveInfo candidate : candidates) {
  String packageName = candidate.activityInfo.packageName;
  if (!packageName.equals("com.google.android.apps.photos") && !packageName.equals("com.google.android.apps.plus") && !packageName.equals("com.android.documentsui")) {
      Intent iWantThis = new Intent();
      iWantThis.setType("image/*");
      iWantThis.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
      iWantThis.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_LOCAL_ONLY, true);
      iWantThis.setPackage(packageName);
      targets.add(iWantThis);
    }
}
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(targets.remove(0), "Select Picture");
chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targets.toArray(new Parcelable[targets.size()]));
startActivityForResult(chooser, 1);

Few words of explanation: targets.remove(0) will remove and return first Intent from targets list, so the chooser will consist only of one application. Then with Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS we add the rest.

The code snippet is modified version from this link.

Please remember to check all conditions like if there is at least one app available and so on.