No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.PICK dat=content://media/external/images/media }

Question

In my app I let users pick a photo from their gallery. I use an intent like this:

Intent pickPictureIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);

And before I start this intent I check if there is any app that can handle it:

if (pickPictureIntent.resolveActivity(getActivity().getPackageManager()) != null) {
    startActivityForResult(pickPictureIntent, SELECT_PICTURE_FROM_GALLERY_REQUEST_CODE);
}

But two of my users get this exception when they try to pick a photo from their gallery:

Exception android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.PICK dat=content://media/external/images/media }

As far I know this happens when there is no activity to handle the intent but as you see I check the possibility of having no activity to handle the intent in my code.

Answer 1

Try this:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), PICK_IMAGE);

This brings up the Documents app. To allow the user to also use any gallery apps they might have installed:

Intent getIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
getIntent.setType("image/*");


Intent pickIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
pickIntent.setType("image/*");

Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(getIntent, "Select Image");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, new Intent[] {pickIntent});

startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, PICK_IMAGE);