How to get "Gallery Photos Paths" in Microsoft MAUI.Net?

Question

I'm building a Custom Control (a Gallery Picture Picker)

basically trying to re-make a this : Microsoft.Maui.Media.MediaPicker.PickPhotoAsync()

but i didn't find anyway to retrieve user pictures on MAUI ..

on Xamarin.Android i used this code :

var uriExternal = MediaStore.Images.Media.ExternalContentUri;

string[] projection = { (MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.Id),
                        (MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.DateAdded), 
                        (MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.RelativePath) };

var cursor = Android.App.Application.Context.ContentResolver.Query(uriExternal, projection, null, null, MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.DateAdded);

if (cursor != null) {
    int columnIndexID = cursor.GetColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.Id);
    int RelativePathID = cursor.GetColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.InterfaceConsts.RelativePath);

    while (cursor.MoveToNext()) {
        long imageId = cursor.GetLong(columnIndexID);
        string rPath = cursor.GetString(RelativePathID);

        //Get the Picture's URI
        Android.Net.Uri uriImage = Android.Net.Uri.WithAppendedPath(uriExternal, "" + imageId);
        
        ...
    }
}

with this Code, given the required permissions, i could get the external path of all pictures of an Android phone to then use them in my PicturePicking custom control ..

==> how can i do this in Microsoft MAUI !! (targeting Android & IOS)

(just to be clear, of course i know that i could just use MediaPicker's [PickPhotoAsync] function, but i clearly don't want that, it's not an option)

Thanks in advance for any help !

Answer 1

So after 2 days of searching.. i've came to the conclusion that the only way to do this is by using Plateform Specific Code ..

(i tryed it successfully)