Android: Let user pick image or video from Gallery

Question

Is it possible to to start Gallery in such a way so both pictures and videos are shown?

Thanks

Answer 1

You start the gallery as such:

Intent pickIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
pickIntent.setType("image/* video/*");
startActivityForResult(pickIntent, IMAGE_PICKER_SELECT);

then in your onActivityResult you can check if video or image was selected by doing this:

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
    Uri selectedMediaUri = data.getData();
    if (selectedMediaUri.toString().contains("image")) {
        //handle image
    } else  if (selectedMediaUri.toString().contains("video")) {
        //handle video
    }
}