Download image from new Google+ (plus) Photos Application

Question

Recently Google added the Photos app for Google+ (plus) and it shows up when you launch an Intent to choose an image. However, if I select an image from Google+ Photos and try to use it in my application none of my current logic is able to return a usable URI or URL to actually get an image that I can download and manipulate. I'm currently using the "common" methods to try to manipulate the URI that can be found here on Stack Overflow and elsewhere. I can provide code if needed, but at this point I think it's kind of irrelevant since it works well for everything else except this new app. Any ideas on how to get a usable image?

The URI looks something like the following:

content://com.google.android.apps.photos.content/0/https%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%<a bunch of letters and numbers here> 

The MediaColumns.DATA info always returns null and the MediaColumns.DISPLAY_NAME always returns image.jpg no matter what I select from the Google Photos app. If I try to paste everything from https to the end in my browser, nothing comes up. Not sure how to get usable info from this.

Answer 1

When receiving the data intent, you should use the contentResolver to get the photos. Here's what you should do:

String url = intent.getData().toString(); Bitmap bitmap = null; InputStream is = null; if (url.startsWith("content://com.google.android.apps.photos.content")){        is = getContentResolver().openInputStream(Uri.parse(url));        bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is); } 

Answer 2

I did faced issues selecting images from new Google Photos app. I was able to resolve it by below code.

It works for me, basically what i did is i am checking if there is any authority is there or not in content URI. If it is there i am writing to temporary file and returning path of that temporary image. You can skip compression part while writing to temporary image

public static String getImageUrlWithAuthority(Context context, Uri uri) {     InputStream is = null;     if (uri.getAuthority() != null) {         try {             is = context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);             Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);             return writeToTempImageAndGetPathUri(context, bmp).toString();         } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         }finally {             try {                 is.close();             } catch (IOException e) {                 e.printStackTrace();             }         }     }     return null; }  public static Uri writeToTempImageAndGetPathUri(Context inContext, Bitmap inImage) {     ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();     inImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes);     String path = MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(inContext.getContentResolver(), inImage, "Title", null);     return Uri.parse(path); } 

P.S. : I have answered a similar question here