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Frieurieud
Frieurieud

Reputation: 3

How get images from external storage

I have created a folder called Items in /mnt/sdcard/, from where I want to find JPG images. Then I want to display a ListView with all the names of the listed images. Upon clicking on one of the names in the list, I would like the image from the path display in an ImageView. I have troubles finding the images.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4619

Answers (1)

Cheesebaron
Cheesebaron

Reputation: 24460

The External Storage path differs from device to device and I strongly suggest you are not using /mnt/sdcard/ but rater Environment.ExternalStorageDirectory.

You should be able to use normal C# file operations to get a list of files. 

string[] filePaths = Directory.GetFiles(Environment.ExternalStorageDirectory, "*.jpg");

You can use the filePaths to pass to your custom Adapter and inside that load the Bitmaps if you want to display them inside of the ListView:

using(var bitmap = BitmapFactory.DecodeFile(filePaths[position]))
    imageView.SetImageBitmap(bitmap);

or you can simply use a SimpleAdapter and pass it the filePaths, which will then display them as strings.

Then you just need to hook up the ItemClick event to get the position in the list clicked and load the correct Bitmap into an ImageView.

Also please read http://docs.xamarin.com/recipes/android/resources/general/load_large_bitmaps_efficiently if you are using large images, as you have very limited resources.

A good resource for Custom List Adapters: http://redth.info/2010/10/12/monodroid-custom-listadapter-for-your-listview/

Upvotes: 1

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