I am trying to get the users to select between taking a picture with the device default camera and select from the gallery of images also default to the device.
I can get the camera to take the picture and have it display within the app just fine since it seems to like the URI pathing straight to a JPG file. However, the pathing given to the gallery URI is very different and does not display the image at all.
Here are the pathes I get:
WHEN TAKEN FROM CAMERA: /mnt/sdcard/filename.jpg
WHEN CHOSEN FROM GALLERY: /external/images/media/# (# is the ID number/thumbnail I believe)
The code used for retrieving both pathes are:
CAMERA:
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
mImageCaptureUri =
Uri.fromFile(new file(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),
"fname_" + String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()) + ".jpg"));
intent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, mImageCaptureUri);
GALLERY:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,
"Complete action using"), PICK_FROM_FILE);
intent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, mImageCaptureUri);
With the Gallery, it opens and I can browse just fine, it just doesn't display the image as it does with taking the picture.
The code used for pulling the images into my app once selected/taken is:
ImageView getMyphoto = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.usePhoto);
String stringUrl = prefSettings.getString("myPic", "");
Uri getIMG = Uri.parse(stringUrl);
getMyphoto.setImageURI(null);
getMyphoto.setImageURI(getIMG);