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Santhosh_pulliman
Santhosh_pulliman

Reputation: 2139

How to get all images from the phone storage into my application?

One activity of my Android application needs to show all the pictures from the phone including sd-card, camera pictures, downloads, etc. How can I perform this with the code? Whether through Intent or some other possible ways? (for instance in google+ application it shows all the pictures from the phone).

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8409

Answers (3)

Stephan Branczyk
Stephan Branczyk

Reputation: 9385

Do you just want to open just the stock Android gallery application?

If you don't, you can always use this MediaStore class. It has all the info you need. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.html

Upvotes: 0

Felix
Felix

Reputation: 89626

The best way to do this is by using the MediaStore.Images content provider. This will show all the images that appear in the Gallery app. However, it will not show hidden images, or images in folders that contain a .nomedia file. If you want to show those as well, you'll have to recursively scan the filesystem yourself (see File for that).

Upvotes: 1

bluefalcon
bluefalcon

Reputation: 4245

You need to query the content database using the content resolver

String[] mProjection = {MediaStore.Images.Media._ID,
                                MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};

mCursor = cr.query(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                               mProjection,
                               null,
                               null,
                               MediaStore.Images.Media.DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER);

Using the mCursor above you can get the path to the images present on your external storage device.

You will probably require a GridView and the adapter to the GridView can use the cursor to get the images one by one.

Upvotes: 4

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