Choose picture Intent causes nullpointer exception

Question

 public void uploadpicture(View view)
        {
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            intent.setType("image/*");
            intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
            startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,
                    "Select Picture"), SELECT_PICTURE);
        }
        public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
            {

            if (resultCode == RESULT_OK)
                 {
                if (requestCode == SELECT_PICTURE) 
                     {

                    Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
                    selectedImagePath = getPath(selectedImageUri);
                    Toast.makeText(this,selectedImagePath,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    Log.i("selectedImagePath",selectedImagePath.trim());

                }

            }


        }

I got the this from Log-cat:

05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=1, result=-1, data=Intent { dat=content://com.android.sec.gallery3d.provider/picasa/item/5147009501910019474 }} to activity {ncpl.talentapp/ncpl.talentapp.SignUp}: java.lang.NullPointerException
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2821)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:2864)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1000(ActivityThread.java:122)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1057)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4126)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:844)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
05-24 15:57:51.054: E/AndroidRuntime(18016): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

Answer 1

From your log it looks like you are trying to pick an image from Picasa folder dat=content://com.android.sec.gallery3d.provider/picasa/item/5147009501910019474, and these must be handled differently, because data in MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA column will be null for them. You can see how to handle picking images from Picasa correctly at this link:

http://dimitar.me/how-to-get-picasa-images-using-the-image-picker-on-android-devices-running-any-os-version/

Only you also need to handle URIs that start with "content://com.sec.android.gallery3d" (I see this on Samsung S3) so change

if (selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d"))

to

if (_selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.google.android.gallery3d") 
    || selectedImage.toString().startsWith("content://com.sec.android.gallery3d"))

I'm not sure if there are any more special cases (probably yes).