Android ACTION_VIEW Multiple Images

Question

I have between one and three photos I\'d like my app to display. I won\'t know until runtime exactly how many photos are downloaded from the Internet.

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Answer 1

I think your goal is out of your control. If the viewer app is designed to handle mutiple images or a directory, you may ask it to show as you want, but you are defined to the viewer's pattern.

I have installed a third-party image viewer called QuickPic. I just tested your code snippet and the system popped up a chooser dialog to let me select the app to show the images in the folder. If I select native gallery, what I see is just an empty folder, while the Quickpic works as I want.

PS: I tell my app the Uri of the folder this way:

intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(new File("//mnt/sdcard/test/")), MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension("png"));