Intent only getting images from the back camera

Question

My app is supposed to get a picture from the gallery and display it in an ImageView, I am getting what I want with all the images EXCEPT the ones I took with my back camera, they show up in the gallery for me to pick and even return the path, but all I get is blankness in my ImageView.

This is the code:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
startActivityForResult(intent, SELECT_PICTURE);

my onActivityResult code is this:

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (requestCode == SELECT_PICTURE && resultCode == RESULT_OK && null != data) {
        Uri uri = data.getData();

        try {
            Bitmap bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getActivity().getContentResolver(), uri);
            ImageView iv = (ImageView) getView().findViewById(R.id.iv_foto);
            iv.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

It works with images taken with my front camera.

I haven't tried the app on another phone but if this happens in mine, chances are someone else will have the same problem.

Answer 1

The issue is with the size of the image.

I've successfully fixed the same issue with scaling the Bitmap before displaying in the ImageView

Bitmap sourceBitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(contentResolver, uri);

try {
        Bitmap sourceBitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(contentResolver, uri);

        float rotationInDegrees = 0;

        Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(uri, new String[]{MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.ORIENTATION},
                null,
                null,
                null);

        if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
            int col = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.ORIENTATION);
            if (col != -1)
                rotationInDegrees = cursor.getInt(col);
            cursor.close();
        }

        Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
        matrix.preRotate(rotationInDegrees);

        int width, height;
        double aspectRatio;
        aspectRatio = (double) sourceBitmap.getWidth() / sourceBitmap.getHeight();
        if (sourceBitmap.getHeight() > sourceBitmap.getWidth()) {
            height = MAX_IMAGE_DIMENSION;
            width = (int) (height * aspectRatio);
        } else {
            width = MAX_IMAGE_DIMENSION;
            height = (int) (width / aspectRatio);
        }
        sourceBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(sourceBitmap, width, height, false);

        return Bitmap.createBitmap(sourceBitmap, 0, 0, sourceBitmap.getWidth(), sourceBitmap.getHeight(), matrix, false);

} catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        throw new RuntimeException("ImageHelper@getImageFromUri: IOException");
}