[Android - Kitkat ]Get/pick an image from Android's built-in Gallery app programmatically

Question

Try to pick only one particular image from the SD card.I am able to pick images from gallery and Photos app in kikat.But not getting file path when i pick image from recents am getting file path as null.

I tried https://stackoverflow.com/a/2636538/1140321.

Answer 1

This works for Kitkat. (In the following code snippet, the getPath function is copied from this post by Hans Cappelle).

public class BrowsePictureActivity extends Activity{

private static final int SELECT_PICTURE = 1;

private String selectedImagePath;
private ImageView imageView;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.browsepicture);
    imageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
    
    ((Button) findViewById(R.id.button1))
            .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                public void onClick(View arg0) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent();
                    intent.setType("image/*");
                    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
                    startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,
                            "Select Picture"), SELECT_PICTURE);
                }
            });
}

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        if (requestCode == SELECT_PICTURE) {
            Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 19) {
                selectedImagePath = getPath(selectedImageUri);
                Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(selectedImagePath);
                imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
                
            }
            else {
                ParcelFileDescriptor parcelFileDescriptor;
                try {
                    parcelFileDescriptor = getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(selectedImageUri, "r");
                    FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = parcelFileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
                    Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor);
                    parcelFileDescriptor.close();
                    imageView.setImageBitmap(image);
                    
                } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

/**
 * helper to retrieve the path of an image URI
 */
public String getPath(Uri uri) {
        if( uri == null ) {
            return null;
        }
        String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
        if( cursor != null ){
            int column_index = cursor
            .getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
            cursor.moveToFirst();
            return cursor.getString(column_index);
        }
        return uri.getPath();
}

}

You need to add permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />