Picture from gallery android

How to take photos from the camera and gallery on android?

With respect to an Android novice, to test things out, you would require a straightforward and clear guide. As you can discover, there are numerous articles, sites, and aides on this subject. However, a large portion of them is not working as well as haven’t tried or too complex to even think about understanding. Let me take you through a guide on the most proficient method to execute this without any problem.

you can download the full source code from Github.

First, you must have a ImageView in your layout implemented to capture the image you upload either through the camera or Gallery.

Following is my ImageView implementation for the above purpose.

Now, after doing this your activity_main.xml will look like this.

Now in the MainActivity class, you have to declare the ImageView first.

In the onCreate override method, you have to initialize the ImageView element by adding the following,

RUN-Time Permission for Camera and External Storage

as you aware that if you are working with marshmallow or above version device then you need to take first run time permission. for our app, we will require two run time permission.

1. Camera Permission
2. External Storage Permission

So let’s see how you will get this permission

first you need to define this two permission in your manifest file ie. AndroidManifest.xml

Now, your AndroidManifest.xml will look like this:

Okay after adding this two permission on the manifest file you need to make a function to check runtime permission on MainActivity. This function will show a popup if the user doesn’t have permission so that the user can click on the allow button to grant permission to your APP.

Now you need to Override onRequestPermissionsResult where you will handle your permission result. if permission granted then you can proceed to call chooseImage function.

Choose Image from Camera and Gallery

Now let’s see chooseImage function, which will show a dialog with three option

1. Take Photo
2. choose a photo from the gallery
3. Exit

Now to handle the result of your startActivityForResult, you need to override onActivityResult

Once you are done with all of the steps, then you call the permission check function in the onCreate method.

So after doing all of the things your MainActivity.java will look like this

That’s it, now you can run your app and enjoy the code.

I hope you enjoy this tutorial and you have learned how to get images from the gallery or capture images from the camera on Android.

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Android Pick Single,Multiple Image From Gallery Or Camera

Hello, and welcome to android pick single or multiple images from gallery or camera in android studio example.

I have made two demos, one will guide you to select single image and another will be for selecting multiple images as per below links

1. Android Pick Image from gallery or camera programmatically

Pick image from gallery or camera in android tutorial guides you how to select/get the image from a gallery in android programmatically.

We will choose/take a photo from gallery or camera in the Android Studio by opening via Intent.

After getting image from gallery or camera, we will show it in an ImageView.

You need to implement this feature when you are creating a sign up page with image of the user.

Another example can be like when you are getting a review from the user about a specific place. Here, the user may want to add images.

First, check the output of pick image from gallery or camera in android example and then we will develop it.

Step 1: Create a new project in Android Studio.

I recommend you to make a separate new android project before you go to second step.

Benefit of doing making fresh new project is that you have empty work space in your main activity so the complexity of the coding lines is decreased.

When making new project, select Empty Activity as a default activity so main activity will not include any prewritten codes.

Step 2: Updating AndroidManifest.xml file

add required permissions between …. tag.

Final code for AndroidManifest.xml file

Now add the following lines in the build.gradle (Module:app) file

So the whole source code for build.gradle (Module:app) file looks like the below

This line allow us to use the dexter library.

Using this library, we will ask for the runtime permissions in the easy manner.

Step 3: Updating activity_main.xml file

Copy and paste below source code in activity_main.xml file

I have taken one button and Imageview in the main layout.

On the button click, compiler will open one dialog where there are two options.

One is to pick image from gallery and other is to capture image from camera.

If user selects image from the gallery, image will be shown in the Imageview. And if user captures image from the camera, the captured image will be shown in the ImageView.

Step 4: Preparing MainActivity.java class

Add following source code in MainActivity.java class

Step 5: Description of MainActivity.java

In the onCreate() method, compiler will call the requestMultiplePermissions() method.

Source code for requestMultiplePermissions() is as the following

This method will ask for multile runtime permissions using dexter library.

We will ask for all permissions at one time.

It is better to allow every permission when you are testing this tutorial on your device to avoid unnecessary complexity.

When the user clicks the button, dialog with select options appears.

Following is the button click method.

The dialog contains options whether to select an image from gallery or to capture the image from camera.

Below is the code for showPictureDialog() method.

This method creates a dialog with two options.

One option is to select an image from the gallery.

Another option is to capture image from the camera.

If a user selects gallery, then following method is executed.

Above gallery intent will open a new screen which includes all the gallery images.

User will select image from this screen.

And if user choose camera, then below method is run by compiler.

Above code will create a camera intent (a camera preview) So the user can capture image from here.

After selecting an image from gallery or capturing photo from camera, an onActivityResult() method is executed.

Code for onActivityResult(), is as below.

If an image comes from an gallery, then compiler goes at the below code.

If a photo is from a camera, then compiler goes to following.

Below is the method to save the image or photo.

In the above code, IMAGE_DIRECTORY is the folder name in which all the images will be saved.

So that’s all for pick image from gallery or camera in the android example. If you have queries, then ask them in the comment section. Thank you 🙂

2. Android Select Multiple Images from gallery or camera programmatically

Android select multiple images from gallery Programmatically tutorial example is for you coders.

In this example, we will pick/get the multiple images from gallery and we will show them in a gridview.

We will choose/take multiple photos from gallery in the Android Studio by opening via Gallery Intent.

You can also select single image in this tutorial.

Last Images of app

The output of this tutorial is look like below images.

Step 1. Making Layout

By default you have activity_main.xml layout file.

Add following source code into it.

I have taken one button and one gridview in this layout file.

When the user will click the button, it will open all the images available on the android device.

It will let the user choose one or multiple images from here.

When the user finishes picking up the images, all the selected images will be shown in the gridview.

Step 2. Java Coding

Now Add below source code in to MainActivity.java file

Now let us understand what output will we have when the above code is run by the compiler.

When the user will click on the button, below code will be run.

I have created one intent object here.

This intent will call the activity which will fetch all the images from android devices.

User will select necessary images from here and when he completes this task, he will be taken back to our app.

When compiler comes back to our app, it also takes selected images with it.

At this time, onActivityResult() method is called and these images are available in this method.

Take a look at the code structure of onActivityResult() method.

All the core logic is present in the above source code.

If user choose single image

When compiler comes to this code, first it will check whether user have selected single image or multiple image.

If user have picked up single image then compiler will run below code

Here, we will have the data of the selected image in the form of URI.

We can set the image in the imageview by using this URI.

After retrieving the image, compiler will set the gridview with this image.

I will describe the code for gridview and it’s adapter in the last chapter of this tutorial.

When the user have selected multiple images

Now if the user have selected multiple images then the below code will be initiated.

Compiler will make one arraylist which contains all the URIs of all the selected images.

One for loop is initiated here. In the every iteration of this for loop, URI of the image is added into the arraylist.

The number of iterations of the for loop equal to the number of selected images, means that if the user have taken three images then the for loop will have three iterations.

This arraylist is then used to set up the gridview.

Step 3. Setting up the GridView

Before setting up the gridview, first we need to create one layout resource file.

This layout resource file (gv_item.xml) will represent the every single cell of the gridview.

Code for gv_item.xml

Every gridview implementation requires the adapter class which will provide necessary data to the gridview.

Here, I have written GalleryAdapter.java class for this purpose.

Source code for GalleryAdapter.java is as following

We are passing an arraylist of image URIs in the second parameter of the constructor.

Compiler will use this arraylist to set up the image in the imageview.

Look at the getView() method in the adapter class. Image is set up with the URI in this method.

All the technical aspects for android select multiple images from gallery example is over now

56 thoughts on “Android Pick Single,Multiple Image From Gallery Or Camera”

Hi, I have a question.Where I need to create the folder IMAGE_DIRECTORY so the app will not give me an error?
Thanks

You don’t need to make any folder manually. It will be generated automatically. Check first few lines of saveImage(Bitmap myBitmap) function.

private static final String IMAGE_DIRECTORY = “/demonuts”;
private int GALLERY = 1, CAMERA = 2;

Thanks for the tutorial,

Can we expand it by uploading/retrieving the selected image to mysql and php server

Hi ,
it is not supporting for nougat version so please give me suggestion ,how it will for nougat

Hi ,
it is not supporting for nougat version so please give me suggestion ,how it will for nougat

After marshmallow versions, you need to check for runtime permissions for camera.

HI,
can you help me that i have to create sketch yourself app.

Bro can you explain what is IMAGE_DIRECTORY and how to get the permissions for camera?

Hi, great post.
I have a doubt, the IMAGE_DIRECTORY is the image path?

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How To Pick Image From Gallery in Android App

by Viral Patel · May 3, 2012

Since few days I am working on an Android app and learning all the nitty gritty of its APIs. I will share few How-to stuffs that we frequently require in Android.
To start with let us see how to integrate Image Gallery with your App. Consider a requirement, you want your app user to select Image from the Gallery and use that image to do some stuff. For example, in Facebook app you can select Picture from your phone and upload directly to your profile.
Let us create an example with following requirement:

1. First screen shows user with and Image view and a button to loan Picture.
2. On click of “Load Picture” button, user will be redirected to Android’s Image Gallery where she can select one image.
3. Once the image is selected, the image will be loaded in Image view on main screen.

Step 1: Create Basic Android Project in Eclipse

Create a Hello World Android project in Eclipse. Go to New > Project > Android Project. Give the project name as ImageGalleryDemo and select Android Runtime 2.1 or sdk 7.
Once you are done with above steps, you will have a basic hello world Android App.

Step 2: Change the Layout

For our demo, we need simple layout. One Image view to display user selected image and one button to trigger Image gallery.
Open layout/main.xml in your android project and replace its content with following:

So our Android’s app UI is very simple, One LinearLayout to organize Image view and Button linearly. Note that the id of Image view is imgView and that of Button is buttonLoadPicture.

Step 3: Android Java Code to trigger Image Gallery Intent

We now need to write some Java code to actually handle the button click. On click of buttonLoadPicture button, we need to trigger the intent for Image Gallery.
Thus, on click of button we will trigger following code:

Note how we passed an integer RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE to startActivityForResult() method. This is to handle the result back when an image is selected from Image Gallery.
So the above code will trigger Image Gallery. But how to retrieve back the image selected by user in our main activity?

Step 4: Getting back selected Image details in Main Activity

Once user will select an image, the method onActivityResult() of our main activity will be called. We need to handle the data in this method as follows:

Note that method onActivityResult gets called once an Image is selected. In this method, we check if the activity that was triggered was indeed Image Gallery (It is common to trigger different intents from the same activity and expects result from each). For this we used RESULT_LOAD_IMAGE integer that we passed previously to startActivityForResult() method.

Final Code

Below is the final code of ImageGalleryDemoActivity class.

Screen shots of Android app

First screen: Lets user to trigger Image Gallery

User can select an image from Image Gallery

Once user selects an image, the same will be displayed on our main activity

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Hi, In which Line you getting NullPointerException? Also try the demo app that I have attached in your device. Check if you getting same error.

at the setting the imageview setImageBitmap,

Heres my code hope that you can help me thx in advance!

Kevin, the way you are triggering Image Gallery is different from what I specified. I am using Intent.ACTION_PICK intent. Can you use the exact code snippet given in above example to trigger the Image Picker.

still got an error

hey viral can u please send me a code for access images from sqlite db store in sdcard….

Hi Viral, Your code is working perfectly, thank you. but i wondered if there is anyway to redirect the image to a different xml layout. I want to access the gallery from main.xml but load it into main2.xml. Thanks

Hi Dendrox, I am not sure if I got your requirement clear. I would create an Activity that loads main2.xml and triggers that via Intent from Mainactivity. Also you can pass the image path as extra in intent. Not sure if this would help you.

can you pls identify the error.. thx a lot

I cannot figure out the issue with the given data 🙁 Could you check if the Demo project is working in your android device? Also try to add few Logcat (Log.d();) statements in your code. You might be able to figure out where exactly you getting null object.

hi, this tutorial is working! i have problems in storing the loaded image into sqlite. i browsed through net and found it need to be stored in bitmap or blob? hope u will give a helping hand. Appreciate.

Been searching for this for a long time.Works perfectly.Thanks a lot.

so useful Tutorial.it works fine.
Thanks

Dear Viral,
Please pos the tutorial which guides how to get started with Android application means from how to add plugins where from we get plugins etc.
Thanx in advance

hi Viral, actually i got error that Resource not found Exception, at line where we are converting columnIndex to string and get path of that gallery image, i can open gallery and when i select image force close is pop up, and got error, can u help why its happen

Thanks. works cool. But when I do the following xml code, it doesn’t work as expected. Can you please let me know why?

the method captureImg is not called. To verify, I have a toast to display when the method is called.

Can be some information if you can help me here.

I use android:onClick on the ImageView and not on the button I want user to click on the Image to choose an image. I have defined it clickable, it is being clicked, but the method is not being called. Can you help me here>?

Hey this code is pretty cool
But the only problem I have is
“The images I take from camera of my application does not display by this image picker”

What I’m going to achieve is snap a photo from my application and let user to brows the image folder through your code but it won’t display any of my newly taken images and worst of all it wont display that specific folder I saved those images (/sdcard/DCIM/myFolder)

but all files display in eclipse file explorer
Even i remove the device and checked the images or folder is not there

Hi Jayanga
I have same problem as is yours. Have you found a solution yet? Please let me know if you have found a solution.
Many thanks

Thx for the code, it works. however when I convert the image to byte[] using theImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 10, baos) and store in sqllite db. Later when i read and display I see lot of space – on top and botton of the image. Why is this extra space coming?

I imported n ran the sample but on clickijng the load buttin it tells no media Found.. how do i load images into the media. can sm 1 teme quicky.

I have only one error in:

public void onClick(View arg0) <

The method onClick(View) of type new View.OnClickListener()<> must override a superclass method
How to resolve ?

when i am clicking load picture button it showing that (No Media Found)

i want code for android that save the images in sqlite database

If I want to choose the picture from only one folder. How can I specific the path or uri of folder to get images.

my application failed when my device rotate… the imageview disappears …. Pls someone can help me.

excellent!! it helped me for my way…… than q…

the same problem than Jorge, the application failed when my device rotate !

imageView disappears and the load button come back and the activity start again…

Any advices for fixing that bug ? (I’m testing it on Xperia mini Pro)

Pb solved:
U have to write – android:configChanges=”orientation” – in the Manifest of your activity

Gallery opens but Image is not being displayed. No error as well. Just the main activity page is displayed.

Check your error log, maybe you are geting something on the lines of

03-16 13:48:28.861 11253-11253/com.example.ch330232.openmybook E/BitmapFactory: Unable to decode stream: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/20170305_180717.jpg: open failed: EACCES (Permission denied)

Are you solve this problem ? I have same problem.

when i pick an image,
it shows “browser history is empty”

will you please help me with it?

Hi Viral, I have added below to my apps manifest file

this helps me goto Gallery , selet an image and my app name would be shown in Share
but I am unable to send this selected image to my app. Can you please help me

Note:I am not opening Gallery from my app but open Gallery and send an image to my open

Hi Viral,
Your Code Works perfectly fine. 😀
Can you tell me how to assign that image picked to be an xml layout’s-background?
I tried converting the bitmap to drawable but got null pointer exception or sometimes even memory out of bounds exception. Can you tell me how to do that?

Please tell me how can we save the image(from Gallery) on the server.

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Viral, good tutorial. Any idea if there is a way to understand the camera capacity in Android devices?

Perfect piece of code. Thanks.

i wan’t to show specific folder, why cannot be show?
Please someone can help me. Thankssss…

I follow this tutorial. How can i get image size. I want to select the image of 300 X 300. where should i put this condition so that user should be restricted to select only the images having 300X300 dimensions? reply plz.

Regards
Qadir Hussain

Thank u so much .this tutorial is very helpful.
But ,Can you plz tell me ,that how i can create gallery programitically and how i can store all images in that gallery.

Thank you so much! Great tutorial! Ciao 🙂

As I can make it work in a file that is not principal activity?

Thank you for such good tutorial.That tutorial is helpfull for me ………

hai… how to import image in gallary

Very Useful Post…

Can u have example for capture photo or select from existing or use avatar

Actually i am developing user profile apps so i want it…

hi… Thanks for article. Really helpful 🙂

Thanks for posting the tutorial. It helped me a lot in my current project. However, I believe I have spotted an error. My native gallery collects images from the camera, downloaded applications and other applications that allow one to take images. If I tried to display an image from the camera gallery, it works perfectly. If I try to use an image from other application (eg Twitter) I get NullPointerExpception error (bummer). I logged out the location of the file(s)

not working image –

Any suggestions? Can we amend the code above so it could be used with any image regardless of its location?

Thank you in advance

The same problem. Need to find a universal solution for any path of images.

Apparantely, this code works if you try to pick the photos from camera. If the user has a picasa account and if you try to pick the photo from picasa albums (which also shows up in gallery), it throws a null pointer exception in im.setImageBitmap(image); because your filepath is null.the path of the picasa album is different from the path of camera (local) pictures. So, for people who are searching for it in future,here is the link which might be useful to you.

i run this app on my pc emulator nexux and when i click on the load image button it show tha NO MEDIA FILE FOUND. So get me with the solution

hi ,i am very very new to android so please help me .I am developing an app where user has to select image from sdcard and path of it has to be stored in database and retrieve it in another activity in app

Are yar…. 1st replay how and where to save images…. Its showing no media files found…

Great . keep on your way of sharing knowledge, you are doing a great work!

thankew thankew vvvv much

I am developing a android app for my website where I need such functionality.

Now I will use this code and modify according to need.

Thanks
your website is so helpfull.
really

Yes! It’s working. Image has been loaded. But now i want to perform some processing function on it. Bitmap processing. How to do that?

My question is not directly pertaining to this segment but I want to capture the image by camera from the app and then display the saved image in one end of the screen kind of how they do it in Whatsapp or Viber.

Can you help me out regarding that?

I am opening an image in gallery app for Android 4.1.The gallery opens but it returns only that particular image. I am unable to scroll the images in gallery. I want my gallery to function similiar to how myfiles works when we open an image from Myfiles

Hello,
if i load many image from my server?

hi i face an error…………………when i select the image it can show force close msg on screen

Thanks… For this use full code …
using your code i am try to pick image from gallary but when i select an image then my activity is shows me “Unfortunately, my photo effect has stopped” .
give me solution for it as soon as possible .

The app needs permission to use storage so add this permission in AndroidManifest.xml.

Hi, if I have the button before the image view then it doesn’t work it just forces close. I was just wondering why this was?

plz send code how to pic from image view

your code is good but you can simply use setImageURI(uri) to set to image to imageview then why you use cursor ?
can you please explain this….

I am using Robotium and I want to pick image from library/gallery. How should I achieve it. I have read-write permission to sdcard.

Thanks for the tutorial. I just wanted to offer a suggestion for you in the future. I would add javadoc comments to the code you are developing. It makes it a lot easier for “us” to understand the code in the tutorial, and it offers you some insight into your code when you come back to it after an extended period of time.

Also, it’s just good practice to document your code.

Just a suggestion 😉

Thanks for this tutorial though. If I wanted to use this with an application I would use a database column to save the image so that it is there whenever the user loads the app. What would be the best practice for this? Would it be just a matter of storing the string with the path directory?

Hi…plz help i wana do profile form on android whic s similar in whtsapp.so plz hel me….

thank you very much. it worked like a blast

Thank you! Very good, very simple!

great app! simple and useful…thank u!!

how to load more then one images from the server.

When i load image from gallery it result an image rotated at 180 degree in canvas

Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I didn’t know that doing this thing is so easy in Android.

Hi Sir, Thanks for u’r tutorial while i am executing this one on my tablet this giving the following exception can you please help to me to resolve the error
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): Process: net.viralpatel.android.imagegalleray, PID: 15844
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo> to activity : java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/images/media/676 from pid=15844, uid=10286 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3681)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3724)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1400(ActivityThread.java:175)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1356)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:146)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5603)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1283)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1099)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/images/media/676 from pid=15844, uid=10286 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
07-23 12:29:01.305: E/AndroidRuntime(15844): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1465)

I am getting these errors Can any one help me to resolve the errors.

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