How to get the image id of an image in the Android gallery?

Question

Here is what I am trying to do in one of my activities:

1. Open up the Android Gallery. (Done)

2. When clicking on one of the images in the gallery I want to

   • Get the ID of that image (????)
   • Save the Image to the SharedPreferences (Already know how to do that)
   • Display the image in an ImageView (Already know how to do that)

So how do I get the ID from an image in the gallery?

P.S.: Is that approach of displaying an image ok like that?

Answer 1

here are some examples of how to pick an image in the gallery:

1. How To Pick Image From Gallery
2. Android Gallery display selected image

hope that you'll get idea from these links.